The book review digest, Volume 16, 1920
Part 2, Dreams, includes chapters on: Sleep; Physiological and
psychological theories; Multiplex personality; Hallucination and illusion in dreams; Romance and fairie; Phantasy; Ecstasy; The eternal.
=CONTEMPORARY= verse anthology; with an introd. by C: W. Stork.[2] *$3 Dutton 811.08
20–19666
“The editor of Contemporary Verse has selected from the pages of that magazine devoted exclusively to poetry the representative contributions printed during the past four years as examples of a style and quality of poetic expression ‘broadly devoted to the needs and interests of the general reading public.’ Among the contributors are found such well-known names as Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Clement Wood, John Hall Wheelock, William Rose Benet, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Sara Teasdale, Mary Carolyn Davies, Margaret Widdemer and Ruth Comfort Mitchell. Among the lesser known contributors are Amory Hare, Stephen Moylan Bird, Gertrude Cornwell Hopkins, Elinor Wylie, Winifred Welles, Phoebe Hoffman, Dorothy Anderson, Amanda B. Hall, William Baird, Berenice K. Van Slyke, Leonora Speyer and many another.”—Boston Transcript
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=Bookm= 52:560 F ’21 600w
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 340w
“It has a little that is very good, more that is very bad, and very much that is mediocre.”
− + =Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 50w
“The selections which appear in this volume, are, in the main, chosen with discrimination and taste.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 40w
“Throughout there is an undercurrent of sane vitality, that spirit of healthy restlessness and inquisitiveness that more than anything else distinguishes the work of so many of the present American poets from that of their quieter, more smoothly flowing British brothers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 250w
=CONYNGTON, THOMAS.= Business law; a working manual of every-day law. 2d ed 2v $8 Ronald 347.7
20–7362
A two-volume edition of the work published in 1918. Volume 1 covers: The law of the land; Contracts; Sales; Agency; Negotiable instruments; Insurance; Employment; Partnership; Corporations. Volume 2: Real and personal property; Wills and inheritance; Personal relations; Suretyship; Debts and interest; Bankruptcy; Bailments and common carriers; Patents, trademarks, and copyrights; Taxation; Arbitration; Law and lawyers; Forms. Appendixes to volume 2 contain: Chart showing jurisdiction of state courts; A professional law library; Glossary, and there is an index.
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=Booklist= 16:355 Jl ’20
“It is a valuable handbook; it can be referred to by the ordinary citizen because nontechnical terms are used and the statements of law are plain and concise.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 180w
“It is well arranged and clearly written for the business man.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 80w
=COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.).= Goin’ fishin’; with an introd. by Leonard Wood, and a foreword by Wright A. Patterson. il *$2.75 (1½c) Stewart & Kidd 799
20–16782
“Weather and feed facts; the fresh-water game fish: the natural and artificial baits and their use.” (Sub-title) Besides this information the book contains the infectious exuberance of spirit which comes from the love of out-o’-doors and which, says the author, has burned like an unquenchable volcano within him from the earliest moments of his life. The motor boat in fishing, footwear and the camp commissary also receive attention and a list of recommended fishing waters—in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pacific Northwest and Canada—concludes the book.
=COOK, SIR EDWARD TYAS.= More literary recreations. *$2.75 Macmillan 824
20–4043
“About half the book is devoted to three charming papers on Pliny’s letters, the classics in daily life, and the Greek anthology. Other essays are on travelling companions, the art of editing, the changes and corruptions of words, and on ‘single poem poets.’”—Brooklyn
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=Brooklyn= 12:102 Mr ’20 50w
“The essays in this second volume of literary recreations, composed in the intervals of leisure snatched from his official duties during the war, are now published for the first time, and only serve to heighten the regret caused by the premature death of their author. Reserved and restrained with strangers, he here reveals a geniality and sympathy of which only the few who knew him intimately were aware.”
+ =Spec= 123:659 N 15 ’19 1550w
“There will be a good many readers of this book who, after listening to Sir Edward Cook, will take down the Greek anthology or the half-forgotten Virgil or Homer from its shelf, and so thank him in the way he would have best liked to be thanked.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 O 23 ’19 900w
=COOK, W. VICTOR.= Grey fish. *$2 Stokes
“In the Shetland Islands they have a toast which they drink on New Year’s day, ‘Health to man and death to the grey fish.’ In this novel both name and toast are applied to a grim sort of hunting and of prey, the German submarines off the coast of Spain during the war. The story consists of twelve connected episodes in which two of the characters are always in the centre of interest, a few others come and go, and still more appear only in single tales. The two chief actors are a young Scot ostensibly in the employ of a British firm of wine merchants with offices at various Spanish ports. The other is a middle-aged Spaniard, a stevedore, once a peasant and an ex-smuggler. A double motive urges him into the grey fish hunting, a love of dangerous adventure for its own sake and a passionate hatred of the Germans because his brother’s boat had been sunk and his brother drowned by a German submarine.”—N Y Times
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+ =Ath= p30 Ja 2 ’20 120w
“The author of ‘Grey fish’ has provided a series of fascinating, well spiced tales so closely connected that they deserve to be called a novel, into which he has put not a little of the atmosphere and color of the Spanish coast.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 400w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:254 S 22 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 70w
=COOKE, GEORGE WILLIS.= Social evolution of religion. *$3.50 Stratford co. 201
20–4088
“The author is dominated by one thought throughout his work, and that is ‘all religion is essentially communal or social.’ Primitive man, like the child, he asserts, does not know himself apart from the group; and he adds: ‘It must be recognized that all the evidence is in favor of the conclusion that the earliest manifestations of religion were those of a group, and not those of individuals.’ And the conclusion is drawn that man has been religious from the beginning. After a few chapters in which are described the social transmission of human experience, the creative genius of social man, and communal and tribal religion; feudal, national, international and universal religion are described; and the closing chapter is on religion as cosmic and human motive. Two fundamental points underlie and color this entire work, namely, that religion is a natural phenomenon and that it is primarily social.”—Boston Transcript
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=Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
“He has collected a great mass of facts, and his interpretation of those facts, while evidencing a vigorous mind, is but the judgment of a human being; and there will be no lack of dissent on the part of readers.” F. W. C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 800w
“The author has drawn heavily upon writers of his own way of thinking. Nowhere is there evidence of any scientific discernment.”
− =Cath World= 111:258 My ’20 500w
“The author tells us that this book contains fifty years’ study of religion but there is not the slightest suspicion in it of an old man’s conservatism. Few books about religion are more radical, more fearless, more resolutely faced toward the future than this one.” A. W. Vernon
+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 780w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 60w
=COOKE, RICHARD JOSEPH, bp.=[2] Church and world peace. *$1 Abingdon press 261
20–8658
“After discussing the demand for a League of nations and answering the question whether or not such a league is possible, and after stating the political difficulties in the way of such a league, the author concludes that the league will need all the spiritual power of the church to make it effective. He says that ‘while the League of nations may do much to prevent war, it cannot eradicate the desire for war. It would seem, therefore, absolutely essential that the physical power of the League shall be supplemented by a spiritual power, some mighty generating influence which, by its appeal to the souls of man, shall be able to cool super-heated passions, and for treasured wrong substitute desire for justice and not revenge, for peace and not war.’ There must then be a Christian league, a league of Christendom supplementing the political League of nations.”—Boston Transcript
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=Bib World= 54:652 N ’20 280w
“The book is a strong one, well argued, clearly written, and exceedingly timely. It closes with an inspiring note of optimism.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
=COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and SPOHR, WILHELMINA.= Household arts for home and school. 2v il v 1 *$1.50; v 2 *$1.60 Macmillan 640.7
20–4147
These volumes are intended for the use of household arts classes in school and as a help in home work. Volume 1 describes how the girls of the Ellen H. Richards school chose the furniture and all accessories for the Sunnyside apartment of five rooms, to be occupied by two of the teachers, and to be used as a practice house for the school. The girls made all the curtains, couch covers, dresser scarfs, table doilies, towels, etc., and while doing so learned all about the decorations and furnishing of a home, its management and up-keep, the use of the sewing machine, the making, mending and cost of clothing and the care of the baby. Volume 2 is more especially devoted to the daily work in the home. The storing and canning of fruits and vegetables, cooking, cleaning and laundering, the preparation of breakfasts and dinners, keeping well and happy are discussed. Each volume has an appendix and an index and many illustrations.
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+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 260w
“The lessons are selected with discrimination, and suitable balance is maintained between the various topics. The book does not make adequate provision for the development of thought and initiative on the part of the pupil and fails to give opportunity for the understanding of principles through experiments.”
+ − =El School J= 21:75 S ’20 370w
=St Louis= 18:221 S ’20 30w
=COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and others.= Teaching home economics. *$1.80 Macmillan 640.7
19–15655
“The authors took upon themselves a large task as indicated in the statement of their aim, namely, to ‘offer suggestions for the organization, administration, and teaching of home economics subjects.’ The authors say, ‘It is taken for granted that the students who will use it will be familiar with the scope of the field,’ and that ‘the book is intended for use primarily in normal schools and colleges’ though they ‘hope that the social workers, vocational advisors, and lay readers will find in this book suggestions of value.’ They specially stress the fact that they wish to ‘attack the subject in the light of the new vision of education as a factor in social evolution.’ The attempt to cover in outline the whole field is treated under four different divisions: (1) Home economics as an organized study in the school program; (2) Organization of courses in home economics; (3) Planning of lessons; (4) Personnel, materials, and opportunities; (5) Addenda.”—J Home Econ
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=Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:99 Mr ’20 40w
“One of the good features of the book is the list of questions after each chapter and the suggested references for collateral reading. While the authors have succeeded in bringing together in one volume material which will be very helpful to the discriminating teacher of home economics, the undertaking was so great as almost to prevent adequate treatment of the various parts.” Isabel Bevier
+ − =J Home Econ= 12:137 Mr ’20 550w
“One finishes the reading of the book with the realization that innumerable statements as to existing conditions have been given, but a feeling akin to bewilderment is not cleared away by any definite conclusion as to wise selection of material, clear emphasis on abilities to be developed, or teaching methods to be used.”
+ − =School R= 28:311 Ap ’20 360w
=COOLIDGE, DANE.= Wunpost. *$2 Dutton
20–10766
“‘Wunpost’ was the nickname bestowed on John C. Calhoun, who, though he came from a good old southern family and had ‘the profile of a bronze Greek god,’ was nevertheless so illiterate that, when he found a gold mine and decided to call it the ‘One post,’ he spelled the name ‘Wunpost.’ He had a habit of finding gold mines. During the course of the narrative he discovers no less than three, but he is cheated out of two of them by the wickedness and ingenuity of old Judson Eells and his ‘yaller dog,’ Lapham, the lawyer who thoroughly understood how to draw up a contract of the most deceptive kind. ‘Wunpost’ went to work to get even with Eells, with Lapham, and with ‘Pisenface’ Lynch, who was Eells’s ‘hired mankiller and professional claim-jumper.’ Of course he succeeded. But meanwhile he learned something about the dangers of boasting, had any number of adventures, including one with an Indian scout whom he outwitted and made a trip across the famous Death valley, besides falling in love.”—N Y Times
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+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 320w
“The best of this book is the descriptions.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The work is an excellent specimen of the better class of western fiction, glowing with local color, featured by continuous and well sustained action and containing an abundance of its own variety of love and adventure.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 100w
=COOPER, HENRY ST JOHN.= Sunny Ducrow. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam
20–6635
The story of a little girl of the London slums who leaves a pickle factory to go on the stage. Her name is Elizabeth Ann but everybody calls her Sunny and it is as Sunny Ducrow that she rises to fame. Later she buys an interest in the pickle factory and moves it to the suburbs where she establishes a model village called Sunnyville. A noble lord falls in love with her and for a time Sunny thinks she is in love with him, but she finds out that she is not and gives her hand to a less distinguished suitor in her own profession.
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“The book is brightly and vivaciously written, and many people will be glad to become acquainted with Mr Cooper’s heroine.”
+ =Ath= p1138 O 31 ’19 60w
“Sunny Ducrow is an amusing impossibility.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 300w
“In ‘Sunny Ducrow’ Henry St John Cooper barely escapes unwittingly surpassing the ‘novels’ that first established Stephen Leacock’s reputation. His heroine outglads Pollyanna and outbunks Bunker Bean.”
− =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 380w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 70w
“There is much that is good in the book and much that is interesting. Good types in all classes of society are here, and the writing is sincere and simple in style. Sunny is almost too perfect, too infallible, too easily successful, and all the various humans who come into her life are almost too regenerated.” G. I. Colbron
+ − =Pub W= 97:991 Mr 20 ’20 350w
=Sat R= 128:sup16 N 29 ’19 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 200w
=COOPER, JAMES A.= Tobias o’ the light. il *$1.75 (2c) Sully
20–9142
Tobias is the light-keeper in one of the Cape Cod lighthouses. In addition, he is a born matchmaker, and when Ralph and Lorna declare they will not marry each other, although—or perhaps because—their families urge it so strongly, he tries to patch up their difficulties by telling each that the other is in financial difficulties. Their pity and chivalry aroused, all might have gone well, had it not been for the bank robbery, of which Ralph is suspected. When Lorna believes Ralph to be the thief because of his need of money, Tobias feels that perhaps he may have overreached himself in his stories. But fortunately the discovery of the part Conny Degger, Ralph’s enemy, has played in the whole affair, puts the matter to rights, and the prospect is bright for Ralph and Lorna, financially and sentimentally.
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=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 180w
=COPE, HENRY FREDERICK.= Education for democracy. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 370
20–8371
“Democracy is more than a form of government: it is a social ideal, a mode of life and a quality of the human spirit; therefore it cannot be imposed on a people; it must be acquired.” How it can be acquired and how our educational plans and ideals can be made to express personal-social values and a common good will in all phases of life is the subject of these essays. A partial list of the contents is: Education in a democracy; Democracy as a religious ideal; The spiritual nature of education in a democracy; Beginning at home; the public schools and democracy’s program; Spiritual values in school studies; Organizing the community; Democracy in the crucial hour.
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“This little volume contains many excellent suggestions on the subject of education for democracy, and is worth reading both by teachers and by parents. But it is not always self-consistent, nor does it seem to us well grounded in fundamental principles.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 270w
Reviewed by J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 S 2 ’20 70w
=COPPLESTONE, BENNET.= Last of the Grenvilles. *$2.50 Dutton
20–1693
“Another story of naval adventure by the author of the widely read tale entitled ‘The lost naval papers.’ Plot and war romance abound. The area of activity covered is, as before, purely naval, and, like the former book, this not only includes stories of spies and their detection but also furnishes a true and amusing picture of the British sailor in wartime.” (Outlook) “The hero is a descendant of Grenville of the ‘Revenge,’ and his life is related from boyhood till he enters the naval service and goes through the great war.” (Ath)
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“The experienced author makes ‘history repeat itself’ in excellent fashion for the youthful reader.”
+ =Ath= p1083 O 24 ’19 40w
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 51:208 Ap ’20 280w
“Mr Copplestone knows the sea and ships as few writers know it, and ‘The last of the Grenvilles’ is a stirring example of his storytelling power.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 320w
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 60w
“No one who has read one of Mr Copplestone’s books will allow another of them to pass him unread.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 90w
“In the sentimental episode entitled ‘The warm haven’ the author challenges comparisons with ‘Bartimeus’ and without success; a lighter touch is needed. But with this deduction the book is a spirited and enjoyable performance.”
+ − =Spec= 124:214 F 14 ’20 380w
=CORBETT, ELIZABETH F.= Puritan and pagan. *$1.75 (1c) Holt
20–20188
Nancy Desmond is the puritan, Mary Allen the pagan. Nancy is a painter with a studio on Washington Square. Mary Allen is a distinguished actress. Max Meredith, who has married one of Nancy’s college friends, comes to New York on business and looks her up. They see much of one another during his stay and find to their dismay that they have fallen in love. True to her instincts and her ideals Nancy sends Max away from her. In the meantime, Roger Greene, Nancy’s friend and teacher, has become infatuated with Mary and between these two there is no question of renunciation. They accept their love as a fact altho Mary refuses marriage. When Nancy learns of the affair she is crushed and finds how much Roger has meant to her. Later after a long separation, after she has seen Max again and after the other love has run its course, Nancy and Roger come together.
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“Her picture will prove fascinating to those who do not know that it is not faithful.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:552 F ’21 90w
“There is a palpable unevenness in ‘Puritan and pagan.’ It is so surprisingly good in spots that we should not expect that an author could maintain that high level everywhere. The novel very frankly contrasts the puritan and the pagan, but it is a contrast, fortunately, which possesses no element of didacticism, no hint of moral purpose.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 1050w
“The author has vividly portrayed several phases of New York life and analyzed skilfully several original characters, without forgetting that her main purpose was to tell a very old and very human story.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 180w
“The plot is sound, the dramatis personae consistently interesting, and the action logical and generally swift.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 340w
“All the plans, hopes, fears, regrets and dreams of three young lives find their expression between the covers, and while there is much that is bitter-sweet in the reading, the sympathetic reader will follow with unflagging interest to the end.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 200w
=CORBETT, SIR JULIAN STAFFORD.= Naval operations. *$6.50 Longmans 940.45
20–8648
“In the official history of the great war prepared by direction of the historical section of the British committee of imperial defense, this is the first volume devoted to naval operation, and concludes with the battle of the Falklands in December, 1914. It gives a detailed account of all the activities of the British navy during the first five months of the war, and this account is entirely based on official reports and other documents. Besides the maps, plans and diagrams inserted in this volume, there is a separate case containing eighteen maps and charts.”—R of Rs
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“The pictures presented are consecutive and clear. The efforts of the author to produce a plain and interesting narrative are ably seconded by the publishers; for the make-up of the book is admirable in the highest degree, and presents a model that makes the work of most American publishers seem crude. In comparison with this book, any other book, even though it deal with mighty armies, seems modelled on microscopic lines.” B. A. Fiske
+ =Am Hist R= 26:94 O ’20 1150w
“Sir Julian Corbett had a moving tale to tell, and he has told it well. It is not altogether impossible to imagine it better written. But the story is at least clear and objective. His judgments err in being a little over-kind.”
+ =Ath= p412 Mr 26 ’20 1850w
“Scrupulous care in the presentation of facts and reticence in criticizing them characterize this very detailed, well documented history.”
+ =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 420w
Reviewed by Reginald Custance
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:460 Jl ’20 2600w
“Sir Julian Corbett is a master of naval lore; he is deeply versed in the strategy and the tactics of the great captains of the old days. The maps are of the highest value and importance.”
+ =Nature= 105:546 Jl 1 ’20 250w
“Sir Julian’s style is clear and concise, his treatment of the subject admirable in every way. A more thrillingly interesting book would be hard to find, or one more valuable.”
+ =Review= 4:36 Ja 12 ’21 1150w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 90w
“The chief merit of Sir Julian Corbett’s volume consists in its exposition of the interplay of naval and military considerations.”
+ =Sat R= 129:370 Ap 17 ’20 1250w
“The author’s lucid and dispassionate works on the past history of our navy had shown that he was specially qualified to record its greatest undertaking, and his new book is all that we had expected it to be as a narrative, even if some of his occasional remarks and deductions may provoke dissent.”
+ =Spec= 124:348 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“Sir Julian S. Corbett reveals himself a student of detail, a scholarly narrator, and a man who is not impatient of research. These virtues, together with an ability to retain throughout a comprehensive view of the worldwide field of operations and the political or military necessity governing many moves that were unavailing, give this history an uncommon value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 170w
“In our judgment Sir Julian has accomplished his extremely difficult task with very great skill. The difficulty of the task is, indeed, in large measure concealed by the skill of its accomplishment. No naval historian has ever had to paint on so large a canvas. None has ever had such intricate and far-reaching operations to describe.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 Ap 1 ’20 3200w
=CORIAT, ISADORE HENRY.=[2] Repressed emotions. *$2 Brentano’s 130
20–19840
“Defining emotional repression as ‘the defense of conscious thinking from mental processes which are painful’ the author goes on to explain the nature of repression, its relation to the unconscious, the part it plays in mental disorders and the manner in which it may be treated through psychoanalysis. He gives a description of the unconscious, emphasizing its importance in the light of the new psychology, and states that it ‘originated not only in the childhood of man but in the childhood of the world,’ and that in it ‘is condensed and capitulated the cultural history of mankind.’ The process of psychoanalysis is outlined, and its value, not only in the treatment of neuroses, but also for the insight it furnishes into certain character defects, is pointed out. The author lays special stress on the fact that psychoanalysis is largely educational since it serves to further the development of character.”—Survey
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=Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 30w
“Dr Coriat has made good his promise of adding to the knowledge of the race. A simpler vocabulary would sublimate the complexities of his thought.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 110w
“On the whole the book is very well written, avoiding terminology which might confuse the lay reader, and while it contains nothing especially new, it does help to clarify one’s ideas on the subject and is well worth reading.” J. J. Joslyn
+ =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 270w
=CORNELL, FRED C.=[2] Glamour of prospecting. il *$6 (6c) Stokes 916
The volume is a record of the “wanderings of a South African prospector in search of copper, gold, emeralds, and diamonds.” (Sub-title) The book was written before the outbreak of the war, and the country has since undergone many changes and many of the waste places, difficult of travel, can now be reached by rail. But this still leaves vast untapped spaces for the lover of adventure. It was the love of adventure more than the mineral riches that tempted the author and his book is, therefore, no handbook for the would-be prospector, neither is it intended to discourage him with discomforts and hardships, for these “were richly compensated for by the glorious freedom and adventure of the finest of outdoor lives, spent in one of the finest countries and climates of the world.” (Preface) The book is well illustrated from photographs and contains an insert map.
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+ =Ath= p612 N 5 ’20 640w
“The author has a keen sense of humor and an equally marked facility in description. And his experiences furnish him ample opportunity to give full play to both of these powers.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 16 ’21 550w
“His story may be taken as a treasure hunt; but it is something more permanently satisfying than fiction, for it treats of real things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p533 Ag 19 ’20 1750w
=CORWIN, EDWARD SAMUEL.= Constitution and what it means today. $1.50 Princeton univ. press 342.7
20–26748
“Within the compass of only one hundred fourteen pages, Professor Corwin has combined with the full text of the Constitution of the United States a series of concise explanations elucidating as far as necessary every paragraph of this document. In a brief introduction he states his purpose to be, not merely to explain the original intentions of the founders of our government, but to show what in the course of time the constitution has come to mean and does actually mean today.”—Review
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=Am Pol Sci R= 14:738 N ’20 40w
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“The task set for this volume has been performed skillfully, concisely, and unostentatiously. There is in this book no citation of cases or decisions, which would deflect its purpose, and no intrusion of private opinion.” D: J. Hill
+ =Review= 3:212 S 8 ’20 1000W
“The idea of the book is excellent. A greater proportion of quotations from decisions of the supreme court would be welcome. And the comment on the question whether the president should pay an income tax savors of personal opinion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 130w
=CORY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Rise of South Africa. 4v v 3 il *$9 (*25s) Longmans 968
“Professor Cory in the new volume of his excellent history of South Africa, deals fully with the critical era that followed the abolition of slavery and that saw the great trek. The author states with much force the case of the colonists, and especially the Dutch farmers, against a most unsympathetic and tactless government.” (Spec) “What was said and written and done at this particular critical time shaped and coloured the whole subsequent history of South Africa; and the mischief then wrought never has been, and possibly never will be, wholly eliminated. As Professor Cory shows, the great trek did not take place because the Dutch did not like their British neighbors, but because they wanted to be quit of the British government, as that government was directed from England.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Descriptive note for volume 1 will be found in the Book Review Digest for 1910; for volume 2 in 1914.
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“Allowing for the restricted scope of the treatment, both in time and area, the author has made a valuable contribution of far more general interest than the particular incidents he actually describes.” A. L. Cross
+ =Am Hist R= 26:357 Ja ’21 500w
=Brooklyn= 12:69 Ja ’20 30w
“The conclusions reached by Mr Cory are those already familiar; but, assuredly, they have never before been based on such a background of well-digested and well-marshalled authority. In more than one instance the author has been able to interview survivors of the events narrated; whilst, throughout, the best evidence available is dispassionately put forward. Undoubtedly the author’s extreme moderation renders more impressive the judgment at which he arrives.” H. E. Egerton
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:289 Ap ’20 460w
+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 200w
“It is a book of high merit, clearly written, attractively illustrated, bearing evidence of tireless research and of information derived from first-hand sources, so far as such sources still exist. For South African readers it provides a reasoned and whole-hearted defence of a past generation of colonists, both British and Dutch. From the point of view of a wider public it lends itself to some criticism, on the double ground that the author, as is natural from his surroundings, is over much an advocate, and that his book, from its minuteness and wealth of detail, is too much of a chronicle and too little of a history.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p703 D 4 ’19 1500w
=CORY, HERBERT ELLSWORTH.= Intellectuals and the wage workers. $2 Sunwise turn 304
20–1365
“Mr Herbert Ellsworth Cory’s ‘The Intellectuals and the wage workers’ is an attempt to present the terms upon which intellectuals and wage workers should unite in the task of social reconstruction. But Mr Cory sees modern society, the labor movement, and the purpose of revolution in psychoanalytic terms. He states his purpose thus: ‘I have been trying to make some forecast of the processes by which intellectuals and wage workers will unite to break down rationally those institutions which are but hysterical symptoms, compromises, bad habit-formations from competitive random activities, morbid complexes and inertia.’”—Nation
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“His apparently easy references to the most diverse contributors in half a dozen fields of human knowledge, philosophy, psychology, education, the labor movement, economics, the physical sciences, are amazing. Yet a full integration seems to be lacking. The members of the proletariat, to whom, it is evident, he dedicates his volume, will be least likely to grasp Mr Cory’s message because it is so heavily weighted with scientific terms.”
+ − =Nation= 110:338 Mr 13 ’20 350w
“He has revealed the tragedy of modern thought, but has lacked the force to bring it into touch with the tragedy of modern life, and has produced half a book instead of a whole one. The half book that he has written could hardly be done better.” Gilbert Cannan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 1650w
“I hope that it will be widely read; for there is need for all to know what fantastic speculation is constantly issuing from the revolutionary fold. Among thinking persons the book will prove its own best antidote.” W. J. Ghent
− =Review= 2:229 Mr 6 ’20 260w
“It is to be hoped that Professor Cory will work out his theory in more detail in its relation to the labor union movement. He sometimes gives the impression of a man seeing it through a golden haze. In avoiding the cocksure pedantry of the typical college professor he has now and then fallen into an uncritical acceptance of unprofessional things.” W: E. Bohn
+ − =Socialist R= 8:247 Mr ’20 900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 200w
=COSTER, CHARLES THEODORE HENRI DE.= Flemish legends. il *$3 Stokes 398.2
20–26992
These legends, translated from the French by Harold Taylor and supplied with eight woodcuts by Albert Delstanche, are taken from the folk-lore current in the middle ages in Brabant and Flanders. The translator’s note contains a brief survey of De Coster’s career as a writer. The first tale of “The brotherhood of the cheerful countenance,” tells how the inn-keeper Pieter Gans, of Uccle, was tempted by the devil to set up the image of Bacchus in his hall and form the above brotherhood, whereupon there were nightly carousings by the male population of Uccle; and how, therefore, it fell to the lot of the women of Uccle, to form themselves into an archery club, under the protection of the Virgin Mary, and save the city from brigands. The other tales are: The three sisters; Sir Halewyn; Smetse Smee.
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+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“They are Rabelaisian in form but without the coarseness and rollicking humor of the great French satirist. There is much of somber beauty in the stories, but also much of the blood-lust of the period.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 60w
“If, like Rabelais, and Balzac after Rabelais, he uses his mastery in that old French the richness and breadth of which were not yet shorn by the correct and academical, he is wholly Belgian, and comparable at most and best with Jordaens, or rather with Rubens, who to robust sensuousness could add the heroic, lavish the while of colour and exuberance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p663 O 14 ’20 1450w
=COTTER, WINIFRED.= Sheila and others. *$2 Dutton
20–18386
“Subtitled ‘The simple annals of an unromantic household,’ this unpretentious little volume relates some of the experiences of a Canadian family, experiences principally concerned with dogs and servants. There are some fourteen sketches in the volume, several of them being concerned with the parrot and the dog who were the pets of the household. The succession of ‘wash ladies,’ the peculiar behavior of the seamstress, the ‘Suppression of a cuckoo clock,’ the point of view maintained by the vacuum cleaner agent ... these and others of the kind provide the author with themes.”—N Y Times
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“Most of the papers are very mildly humorous, and all of them are pleasantly written.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 320w
“Sketches of merit, but menaced as a collection by a certain excess of ‘brightness.’ On the whole the whimsies of housekeeping are relatively wearisome to the male; I suspect this volume will fare best as read aloud in purely feminine circles.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 110w
=COTTERILL, HENRY BERNARD.= Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300–1600). il *$5 Stokes 945
20–2716
This volume follows “Medieval Italy during a thousand years,” published in 1915. It is a review of the political history of Italy from 1300–1600 “as viewed from the standpoint of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries.” (Subtitle)
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“We should be inclined to trust Mr Cotterill further in art than in literature. His style improves noticeably as he proceeds, and he lays aside to some extent his irritating habit of breaking into the historic present on the slightest provocation. As a whole the book is thoroughly sound and useful. The photographs are suitably chosen, and there are good chronological tables, lists of artists and genealogies of the chief reigning houses.” L. C.-M.
+ − =Ath= p1254 N 28 ’19 1600w
“The great mass of materials relating to a disorganized country and to the achievements in art are so interwoven as to form a scholarly, clear whole.”
+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 30w
“The author has adopted an excellent and satisfactory plan for compassing his enormous field and clarifying the immense detail that goes to make up the history of these perhaps most significant centuries in the world’s history. The book was evidently written during the war and the author is frequently rather amusingly, pleased to find German authorities in error.” B. B. Amram
+ =Review= 2:544 My 22 ’20 1300w
“The author’s bias in favour of republicanism is unfortunate in its results upon his work.... It is useless, however, to discuss differences of opinion in a book the subject of which is so immense; we can only repeat our conviction that a reader who expects to find a general book on the art, literature and history of all the Italian states during their most important period will find Mr Cotterill’s book useful, though he will be well advised to supplement its judgments with other and more detailed works, and to make free use of the historical lists and tables provided at the end of the book, and of the useful index.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:561 D 13 ’19 1050w
=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Inevitable; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–18761
The title of the story indicates its fatalism. At the age of twenty-three Cornélie de Retz van Loo was a divorced woman. She had passionately loved the handsome Baron Brox when she married him, but their temperaments had clashed from the beginning. He had gone so far in his masterful, brutal way, as to beat her and she had run away. She went to Italy to be alone and to reconstruct her life. She became a feminist and achieved some fame in the woman movement by her pamphlet on “The social position of divorced women.” Also she met Duco van der Staal, the painter and dreamer and formed a free union. They were a most harmonious couple, complementing and stimulating each other; helping each other to find their “line of life.” But Cornélie will not hear of marriage. She is through with marriage. Impecuniosity enjoins a temporary separation. Cornélie takes a position as companion. There she meets her former husband who at once exerts hypnotic power over her and commands her to return to him. Cornélie flees and returns to Duco, but even in his arms and knowing that she loves only him, her inexorable fate is upon her. She follows the call of him whom she does not love, but whose property and chattel she is because she was once his wife.
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“Of the four other Couperus novels which have now been published in this country, ‘The inevitable’ is decidedly the best from the mere standpoint of novel writing.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 1250w
“Taken as a whole, it is rich in beauty, rich in passion, has much of gentle dreaming and superb awakening; yet it contains a certain sadness which oftimes borders close to melancholy—a splendid woof woven together with a warp of morbidity.” M. D. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p5 Ja 9 ’21 1050w
“There are many chapters in ‘The inevitable,’ aside from the concluding one, which mark the book as an exquisite example of the fictionist’s art. The author’s touch is always delicate and sure in handling the lights and shades of thought and emotion. The author’s powers of characterization are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 1300w
“‘Inevitable’ is decidedly well written and translated; it is extremely attractive in its pictures of Rome, of Italian society, and of the foreign colonists.” R. D. Townsend
+ − =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“As in ‘The tour,’ the author’s interest in antiquity and in art finds very full expression in these pages, as well as his sense of racial contrasts and interplay among those who chance to meet on alien soil.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:650 D 29 ’20 400w
=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Tour; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–10054
In this book Louis Couperus, the Dutch novelist, tells a story of ancient Egypt. Publius Lucius Sabinus, a young Roman lord, is touring the Nile seeking diversion and forgetfulness of his lost love, whom he believes drowned. This is the outward reason. Actually he has come to visit all the various oracles to learn what he can of her whereabouts. One after the other they reveal to him the thoughts that are in his own mind and bring him to admit what others have all the time known, that the girl has shamelessly deserted him and run off with a common sailor. At the end of the tour news meets him that the Emperor Tiberius has confiscated all his property, but Lucius, who has now found solace with the Greek slave Cora, is impervious to the stings of fortune and faces a life of poverty with gaiety. The story is told lightly and with humor.
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+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“‘The tour’ adds much to the Dutch novelist’s laurels, for it achieves the unusual success of being totally unstrained by ‘melodrama,’ ‘conflict,’ ‘passion,’ ‘revenge,’ or any other of the common characteristics of a modern novel, and yet it is enthrallingly interesting.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 12 ’20 300w
=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 120w
“Although passages of fictional interest reward the more frivolous-minded reader occasionally, and although there is a love scene toward the end, there is much Baedeker between. The work is unmistakably Couperus, delicate and suggestive, yet precise.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 230w
“His style is exquisite, delicate, unusual, and beautifully translated.”
+ =Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 140w
“This book, even more perhaps than the stories that deal with his Dutch contemporaries, exhibits his frugal ease and grace, the strength and delicacy of his execution, the conscious but always finely restrained melodic structure of his prose.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 420w
“A certain degree of relief is given to the otherwise sombre picture by the two figures of Uncle Catullus and of the Sabaean guide Caleb, the latter being a convincing presentment of a type which has changed but little with the passing of time. Those who are interested in the lives of the rich as they were some couple of thousands of years ago, and in the decay of the oldest and at one time the most powerful civilization upon earth, will find ‘The tour’ a fascinating book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 800w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“It is, at all events, a gay little affair. It is a romantic comedy in the vein of ‘Twelfth night’—which, with its disconsolate young lord and the manner of his comforting, it vaguely resembles.”
+ =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 320w
“Told with light, ironic humor and exquisite artistry.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=COURNOS, JOHN.= Mask. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–262
“This is the story of the making of a human mask.” (Overture) It is the story of John Gombarov’s childhood and youth, as he told it years afterward to a friend in London. Born in Russia, into a family of “emancipated Jews,” he spends his early childhood there and tells of the quaint customs and the kind of people he remembers. Then, the family fortune being hopelessly ruined by his stepfather, a man with the soul of a child and the mind of an inventor, they come to America, the land of promise. The process of Americanization that Vanya, now John, goes through in ‘The city of brotherly love’ is not a pretty picture to contemplate. There the “wretched little foreigner” is run “through a mangle” to “wring Europe out of his flesh and bones like dirt out of a garment.” Only a heroic soul of the type of John Gombarov’s could survive uncrushed. But it put the mask on his face.
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=Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
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“The charm and power of the book lie in its welding of substance and form,—its ‘style,’ in the only sense that matters. Its pictures are conveyed as if by indirection. Yet they are as clear-cut as the work of a lapidary.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:76 Mr ’20 1100w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 900w
“The embarrassing predicament of ‘The mask’ is that it is a reasonably good book. Now a reasonably good book is peculiarly elusive. One cannot tumble all over himself with praise of it, nor can he object to it without a futile qualification of every statement. Mr Cournos, like so many of our present-day writers, goes about his work with intelligence, an impeccable keenness of vision, and some thoroughly arrived attitudes. Consequently, one cannot get at him. He is impregnably aware. Such people are skilled in the art of giving just as much as can be endured, and no more.” Kenneth Burke
+ − =Dial= 68:496 Ap ’20 1700w
“If ‘The mask’ does no more than picture the struggle of an immigrant family in ‘The city of brotherly love’ it is a rich contribution to American literature. But it certainly does much more than that.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 650w
“It is the poetry in this novel that makes its starkness endurable. Behind the welter of life that it presents is an irresistible impulse to live with mastery, with beauty, with meaning.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:85 F 8 ’20 550w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:231 Mr 6 ’20 480w
“‘The mask’ is a great book, curiously Elizabethan in spirit, a cry of joy and life that existence cannot quench.”
+ =Sat R= 129:192 F 21 ’20 750w
“There is a vein of poetry in the telling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 220w
“A book like this cannot be read lightly as an amusement. It is closely written, with an intensity of feeling (usually hatred, particularly of America) which will be a little startling to Englishmen. John Gombarov is a fine character; the book is created for him; he is the central interest which holds this discursive narrative together. If he is not precisely a lovable character, he is a real and living one.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p610 O 30 ’19 550w
=COURSAULT, JESSE HARLIAMAN.= Principles of education. (Beverley educational ser.) *$2.50 Silver 370
20–20531
“The purpose of this book is to make simple, definite, and clear, a body of principles which should guide in educational thought and practice. Every student of education has certain fundamental beliefs, or principles, which he uses as standards in judging the truth or falsity of educational ideas and practices, upon which, as an explanatory basis, he organizes his knowledge of educational matters, and in the light of which he sees new difficulties to be overcome and new problems to be solved.... To deal intelligently with these educational problems, to deal intelligently with any educational problems, even where scientific measurement is made use of, one must have some fundamental ideas as to the nature of education and the part which education plays in the drama of life.” (Chapter I) The contents fall into three parts: The individual process; The social process; The educational process. There is a bibliography and an index.
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“A preliminary statement of suggestions for using the book as a text, together with a graphic outline of the book itself, found in one chapter, add to the usefulness of the volume.”
+ =El School J= 21:312 D ’20 680w
“The book is excellently organized for teaching purposes. The reinterpretation of the contributions of the great educational philosophers is clear and concise, and is interwoven most appropriately with the unfolding of the theme.”
+ =School R= 29:70 Ja ’21 350w
=COURTNEY, MRS JANET ELIZABETH (HOGARTH).= Freethinkers of the nineteenth century. il *$6 Dutton 274.2
(Eng ed 20–12144)
“A cross section of English intellectual life as it reflected the new tendencies is presented in a biographical study of seven outstanding personages of the period by Janet E. Courtney in ‘Freethinkers of the nineteenth century.’ The seven are Frederick Denison Maurice, Matthew Arnold, Charles Bradlaw, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leslie Stephen, Harriet Martineau and Charles Kingsley, the last included rather as an associate of free thinkers and a sympathizer with them than as one actually of their number. The author in a preface explains the selection as promoted by recollection of youthful impressions of the controversies in many fields of intellectual activity.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Ath= p634 My 14 ’20 780w
“Her book reads a little as if Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen and the others were files of old newspapers, from which she has been diligently and judiciously clipping. But the clippings, it is only fair to add, are connected by a well-informed and easy narrative, and each whole is a story told with tolerance and humor and a pleasant contagious gratitude.”
+ − =New Repub= 23:313 Ag 11 ’20 1350w
+ =No Am= 213:139 Ja ’21 580w
“Miss Courtney has done her work well; her brief biographies are intelligent, sympathetic, and discriminating, and are interesting reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 130w
+ − =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 500w
“Mrs Courtney’s book is well worth reading. We regret its omissions, and it does not go very deep; but as a record of facts and of sympathetic interpretation it is interesting.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:435 My 8 ’20 900w
“Their stories are intelligently and interestingly told.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 520w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p184 Mr 18 ’20 880w
=COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL MADISON.= Colonial architecture of Salem. *$8 Little 728
19–19769
“The chapter headings [of this book are:] The gable and peaked-roof house; The lean-to house; The gambrel-roof house; The square three-story wood house; The square three-story brick house; Doorways and porches; Windows and window frames; Interior wood finish; Halls and stairways; Mantels and chimney places; Public buildings; Salem architecture of today. The first five chapters trace a definite development in Salem architecture by periods in a more thorough manner than has before been attempted. The last chapter deals with modern houses designed and built with rare good taste along historic lines since the disastrous Salem fire of 1914.”—Bookm
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“It is not a chatty book like Miss Henderson’s; it is rather a serious, analytical, descriptive, and semi-technical study.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 51:243 Ap ’20 280w
“The most valuable as well as the most complete study of the subject.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 650w
=COUTTS, FRANCIS BURDETT THOMAS MONEY-.= Spacious times and others. *$1.25 Lane 821
20–7868
A book of poems by an English writer, author of a number of volumes of essays and verse. Part 1 consists of war poems with such titles as: The new Pisgah; To the Belgians; To America aloof; To America at war; To an anticompulsion demagogue; To the strikers; The conscientious shirker; To Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. The second part contains poems of other days. Notes on some of the war poems come at the close.
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“For all their fourteen lines and their Petrarchan rhyme-system, they have the quality of newspaper articles.”
− =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 150w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 450w
“Much better than most of the lyrics of the war is a quiet poem about a woman, called ‘Her character.’” Marguerite Williams
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 90w
“They have eloquence; but it is rather the stilted eloquence of a sententious publicist than poetry; and it is lost when the writer drops to political abuse. On the whole the inspiration runs thinly throughout.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w
=COX, HAROLD.= Economic liberty. *$2.75 Longmans 330
20–12900
“Mr Harold Cox has collected and reprinted from the quarterlies a number of his recent articles on economic and political questions. Mr Cox rightly lays stress on the importance of economic liberty which is obtainable only under our existing system. There is much truth in Mr Cox’s chapter on socialist ethics. He devotes a chapter to the special fallacy of ‘Nationalisation,’ involving the state control under which enterprise withers and individual initiative ceases. There are some essays, too, on the question of free trade or protection, and an eloquent paper on ‘The two paths of empire’—the old protectionist methods which we abandoned deliberately last century, and the modern creed of freedom under which the dominions and the crown colonies and protectorates have developed very rapidly and successfully.”—Spec
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=Am Econ R= 10:852 D ’20 70w
“Will be appreciated by those who distrust state control and by radical thinkers who wish seriously to consider opposing points of view.”
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“One would, in fact, like to see these essays expanded into a general political philosophy, and we believe there would be a welcome for such a book, and that it would have considerable influence.”
+ =Sat R= 130:180 Ag 28 ’20 1000w
“Mr Cox’s general line of reasoning is sound.”
+ =Spec= 124:830 Je 19 ’20 1200w
“In dealing with present day problems, Cox is academic and aloof from realities. Nevertheless, this is a good book for reformers of all schools who sincerely desire to consider their cause in the light of every genuine opposing argument.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 270w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 670w
=COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SYDNEY COXON).= Breathless moment. *$2 (2½c) Lane
20–13346
Sabine Fane, brought up in luxury, was left destitute after her father’s death. Nothing daunted, she accepts a position as housekeeper and eventually falls in love with her mistress’ nephew. But Mark is already married to a worthless woman and just before he leaves for the front, Sabine decides on a desperate step. She will have her breathless moment before it is too late. During the war Mark’s wife dies and he is not only crippled but becomes a victim of shell shock. He has completely forgotten the episode with Sabine, but such is her charm that he falls in love anew on seeing her. The illegitimate child arouses his moral indignation and once more he turns from her. An operation on an old scalp wound restores his mental balance and all difficulties are cleared up except a lurking regret on both sides for what has happened before the war.
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“In ‘The breathless moment’ Miss Muriel Hine is perhaps at her best.”
+ =Ath= p619 N 5 ’20 100w
“A sound piece of work, interesting, well balanced, with characters whose deeds and personalities are alike plausible, and a story which develops clearly and logically, it is a better book than any one of hers which we have previously read.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 700w
“The story is readable but unconventional.”
+ =Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 70w
+ =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 30w
“Muriel Hine shows herself, as always, a capable story-teller. If only she were something more than capable, and did not show her capability quite so unblushingly! If only her chapter openings and endings were not quite so pat; her little nature paragraphs not so obviously put in for atmosphere.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O ’20 260w
=CRABB, ARTHUR, pseud.= Samuel Lyle, criminologist. il *$1.90 (2c) Century
20–17409
Samuel Lyle was the ablest criminal lawyer that Alden boasted. He seemed to have an almost uncanny insight into human psychology that enabled him to put his finger on the weak spot of any criminal intent. In this book of eleven short stories his methods are revealed and illustrated. The titles are: A pleasant evening; Among gentlemen; The greatest day; A story apropos; Perception; The alibi; Number 14 Mole street; The raconteur; Juror no. 5; “Compromise, Henry?”; Beyond a reasonable doubt.
=Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“Entertaining detective stories, neither bloody nor complicated.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
“Unlike so many mystery stories, the author does not emphasize the sordid and brutal, but relies, rather, for his thrills upon clean-cut and ingenious plot-weavings.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 290w
“They are scarcely less ingenious than Sherlock Holmes, but they are much more probable. There is, indeed, not one of the mysterious incidents which might not quite naturally have occurred, and the explanation is as natural as it is surprising when it is furnished.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w
=CRADDOCK, ERNEST A.= Class-room republic. *$1 Macmillan 371.3
“Modern civics teaching is demanding much participation on the part of the pupil. One way to get this desirable activity is through the introduction of student self-government into a class or a school. Some English experiments with this sort of thing have been published quite recently. Besides narrating his experience in introducing classroom republics into his school the author of this little book discusses in some detail the advantages of the system and some objections to it. Some attention is also given in the last two chapters to the subject, ‘The school republic.’”—School R
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=Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 120w
“The book is well written and presents with fairness both the merits and defects of the scheme proposed.”
+ =El School J= 21:75 S ’20 200w
+ =School R= 28:550 S ’20 120w
“The book is, besides being a genuine contribution to the science of pedagogics, extremely amusing even to the non-professional reader. It is indeed delightful to read such a book as Mr Craddock’s, well written, conceived with gusto and treating of a subject so interesting.”
+ =Spec= 124:761 Je 5 ’20 900w
=CRAM, MILDRED.= Lotus salad. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–10732
A story of love and adventure in a South American state. Pug Fairchild, son of his father, after exhausting the pleasures of New York, goes down to South America to look after the Fairchild interests in Magella. Before leaving, he asks a girl to put on her hat, marry him and go too, but as a practical minded young miss, she refuses the tempting proposal. A few hours after arrival he meets the real girl, daughter of Diego, Magella’s president for the moment, and the real romance begins. He also runs into a full-sized revolution and his adventures begin almost immediately. The author adopts a movie technique in telling her story.
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“Anyone who wants to be really beguiled from tedium, without the faintest intellectual struggle, who wants to feel just a little warmer and younger and chirpier than he has felt lately, may risk a reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 18 ’20 350w
“It is a Richard-Harding-Davis sort of story, set in a Richard-Harding-Davis kind of scene. ‘Lotus salad’ is meant only to serve as an hour’s merry entertainment and it is cleverly worked out for that purpose, even if its colors are high and glaring.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w
“Here is romance and adventure with a swing and a sparkle that will entertain the reader admirably.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 340w
=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.= Gold, frankincense and myrrh. *$1.25 Jones, Marshall 252
20–445
“The title of the three addresses, explained in the preface, sums up their substance: ‘Gold is the pure, imperishable quality of the monastic ideal, Frankincense the supreme act of worship through the Blessed Sacrament, Myrrh the saving quality of a right philosophy of life ... the three gifts that must again be offered by a world once more led ... to worship and fall down before the Incarnate God so long and so lightly denied.’ They have been published in The American Church Monthly.”—Booklist
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=Booklist= 16:163 F ’20
“The lectures are original and suggestive. Their scope is far wider than the small groups for which they were written.”
+ − =Cath World= 110:833 Mr ’20 850w
+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 350w
=CRANE, AARON MARTIN.=[2] Ask and receive. *$2 Lothrop 248
20–22091
A collection of the unpublished papers of the author, who died in 1914. The subject is prayer, with particular reference to the teachings of Jesus. Among the chapter titles are: How to pray, The prayers of Jesus, The rule for all praying, The need of forgiving, Prayer and healing.
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=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 130w
=CRAWFORD, MARY CAROLINE.= In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. il *$3 (4c) Little 974.4
20–9735
The author points out in the foreword that the name Pilgrim was not applied to the Plymouth pioneers until late in the eighteenth century and that it was first used by Thomas Paine. The name of Puritan was repudiated by the settlers themselves, who were not really Puritans but Separatists. In view of the many books already written on the Pilgrim fathers, the author says: “Yet I hold it to be true that however well the history of any epoch may have been written, it is desirable that it should be rewritten from time to time by those who look at the subject under discussion from the point of view of their own era.” Contents: The college that cradled the Puritan idea; In which certain Puritans become “Pilgrims”; The first migration: The formative years in Leyden; The England from which they fled; How they sailed into the unknown; How they set up a home in the new world: How they met and overcame the Indians: How they made their laws and tried to live up to them; How they established “freedom to worship God”; Some early books about Plymouth; Social life in the Pilgrim colony; Appendix, index and illustrations.
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+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
“Gives as vivid and complete a picture of the life of the Pilgrim fathers as any I have seen.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:122 O ’20 2350w
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 120w
“If the reader is looking for historical accuracy he can but feel a sentiment of disappointment. But nevertheless there is very much of deep interest. But for some evidences of haste in its preparation, causing many minor but annoying errors, this book about the Pilgrims must be regarded as one of the most readable which have yet appeared.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 340w
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
=N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 340w
“Will have a lasting value as an admirable account of the personalities and the times that were pregnant with the New England of today.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 50w
“A book that is not merely authoritative but interesting.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 2 ’20 750w
=CREEL, GEORGE.= How we advertised America. il *$5 (3½c) Harper 940.373
20–10648
“The first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe.” (Sub-title) Mr Creel charges Congress with intent to keep any final statement of achievements from the public, and says “It was to defeat this purpose that this book has been written. It is not a compilation of incident and opinion, but a record and a chronicle.” The book is in three parts: The domestic section; The foreign section; Demobilization. Newton D. Baker’s address delivered at a dinner in honor of Mr Creel is printed as a foreword and various letters and other documents, including a list of the publications of the committee, are given in an appendix. The book is fully illustrated with portraits and is indexed.
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=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
=Freeman= 2:89 O 6 ’20 1550w
“Of course he writes in journalese; he would not be Creel if he did not; but his story of the committee’s work has the rush of a bullet, the direct and convincing quality of journalese when it is written by a man who knows the art.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 4 ’20 3150w
Reviewed by F: Moore
=Review= 3:211 S 8 ’20 1000w
=CREEL, GEORGE.= War, the world, and Wilson. *$2 (2c) Harper 940.373
20–11585
A book written as a defense of President Wilson and as a plea for the ratification of the peace treaty and the acceptance of the league of nations. It was our pledges that won the war, the author states, and our repudiation of those pledges that is losing the peace. Among the chapters are: The man and the president; Neutrality; “Strong men”; “The Roosevelt divisions”; The case of Leonard Wood; America’s moral offensives; Why the president went to Paris; “The big four”; What Germany must pay; Shantung and hypocrisy; The Adriatic tangle; Were the fourteen points ignored? How the treaty was killed; The great American tradition.
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“Often makes a good case, but weakens its effect by trying to prove all the reason on one side.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20
“It is a much less effective campaign document than Ray Stannard Baker’s account of the peace conference or Professor Dodd’s biography of Wilson because it is too obviously prejudiced and recklessly overstated.”
− + =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 70w
=Review= 3:74 Jl 21 ’20 270w
“The book as a whole is a brilliant political tour de force.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 460w
“Mr Creel is too much inclined to produce a campaign document and to hold that the democratic departments could not make mistakes. The most effective part of the book is that which shows how a republican clique in the Senate aided the imperialists of Europe by undermining the president’s influence while he was at the conference. Mr Creel is less satisfactory in his reply to Mr Keynes. Here his temper is violent and rhetorical.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 6 ’20 1050w
“Here at last is a straightforward statement of the fundamental facts over which some controversies of the past four years have raged.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1700w
=CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).= At random. *$1.50 (2½c) Putnam 814
20–18957
The present volume is the result of the author’s long illness, and is a collection of opinions in the form of short essays, nature essays, impressions of writers, stories and moods. Some of the titles are: Literary commercialism; Prejudices; Useful lies; Heredity; Discipline; Christian science; My vision; Traveling seeds; The beautiful orchids; The search for truth; The hermit of Walden; Trees and their blossoms; The sixth sense of humor; Caddis flies; An October afternoon.
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“The various literary activities to which Mrs Creevey set her hand, in the field of nature, won her a host of admirers, who will be entertained with these random papers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 280w
=N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 10w
=CRESSON, WILLIAM PENN.= Cossacks; their history and country. il *$2.50 Brentano’s 947
20–1063
“An American writer’s account of that Russian people who have declared their intention to establish ‘a federal republic like that of the United States.’ This is the first history in English of the Cossacks or ‘Free people’ of Russia (to most Americans the term Cossack refers only to a branch of the old Russian cavalry service). Captain Cresson was formerly secretary of the American embassy at Petrograd, and much travel in the Cossack country and intimate knowledge of the sources of Cossack history have equipped him for the task of interpreting this interesting people to his own countrymen.”—R of Rs
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=Ath= p560 Ap 23 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
“Students of Russia will appreciate Captain Cresson’s volume, because it is, so far, our most reliable account of the Cossacks in English. He has brought within its pages information that hitherto was scattered and difficult to collate, and he has shown, in its presentation, a scholarly viewpoint and a ready pen.”
+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 700w
“The book is not to be taken too seriously as a contribution to historical literature, but vivacity of style and the wild-western colour of the subject-matter make the pages interesting enough.”
+ − =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 50w
“Captain Cresson’s work rests on the standard researches of French historians and the general reader can peruse it with confidence as well as with interest.”
+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 360w
=Lit D= p86 Je 26 ’20 1250w
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w
“The most valuable part of his book is that in which, from personal observation, he describes the organization and government of the Cossacks. This otherwise excellent book has one shortcoming, and that is faulty transliteration of Russian names.”
+ − =Review= 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
Reviewed by Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:52 Ap 3 ’20 160w
=CROCKETT, ALBERT STEVENS.= Revelations of Louise. il *$2.75 (6½c) Stokes 134
20–19174
The book records the circumstances of the loss of a beloved daughter and of the parents’ communications with her from the spirit world. Previous to the occurrences described, the author avows, he had been a decided skeptic on the subject of spirits. The communications came by way of the ouija board, table tippings, levitations and materializations, all through non-professional means. Long conversations with Louise are recorded. Among the contents are: Through the board; Spirit dogs, and another: The festival of spirits—writing; The table that talked; On guides and “power”; Manifestations; Good spirits and bad—the chart; How levitation is done; Spirit audiences and performers; Spirits and human nature; The seven spirit planes—and some ancient American history; Levitation extraordinary.
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“The chief interest of the book lies in the detail and accuracy of Mr Crockett’s observations, and what new evidence he can bring to the case.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 660w
“The book has an interest wholly apart from the question of possible dealings with the world beyond, in that it presents a vivid picture of a charming and lovable girl, who is sweet and natural and unchanged on either side of the veil.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 540w
Reviewed by Booth Tarkington
+ =N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 420w
“Quite aside from the personal matters there are descriptions of the life in the ethereal realm that, to say the least, must commend themselves to those who have already acquired some conceptions of the next phase of life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 360w
=CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD.= Light out of the east. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–22156
This is not a story of the return of Christ to earth, but it is the story of a Christ-like figure who remakes the world on the basis of Jesus’ teachings. He is known as the White Pope, for altho only a poor monk, Brother Christopher had been elevated to the Vatican. To the horror of all, however, he had forsaken the papal throne to wander about the earth teaching that God is to be found only in men’s hearts. So Lucas Cargill of Cargillfield, Scotland, meets him and becomes his first disciple and recorder of the events that follow. In several respects the narrative parallels the life of Jesus.
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“Nothing in ‘The light out of the east’ is probable or even possible, and in addition to its manifest exaggeration, the religious element is lugged in. This hardly makes an artistic book; in fact, it does not even make a moderately good story.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 200w
“Beyond the statement that this book has an effective style, there is little to be said about it. The book is a thinly-veiled attack upon the Catholic church.”
− =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 150w
=N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 520w
“It is a message of idealism beautifully conceived and filled with optimism for the world’s future.”
+ =Outlook= 126:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w
“This book will stir wonder and regret in those who remember and still admire Mr Crockett’s earlier novels.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 280w
=CROMWELL, GLADYS.= Poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811
19–19249
“Another book that is in the nature of a memorial volume, since it is posthumous, is ‘Poems,’ by Gladys Cromwell. In a preface Padraic Colum gives a just and accurate account of Miss Cromwell’s achievement as a poet and defines her talent admirably. In a biographical note at the end of the book Anne Dunn accounts for the tragic death that shocked the world a year ago.... Miss Cromwell, as Mr Colum wisely suggests, was not a poet of facile and sensational emotions. Her gift is pensive. Her songs have a quiet music. Here is light that glows clearly, not fire to heat us.”—N Y Times
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“Miss Cromwell was not one of those young poets who accept without question the traditionally ‘poetic’ themes and prattle, without a sign of conviction, of love and springtime and the picturesque beauties of nature. She wrote of real spiritual experiences, of what she had herself thought and felt.”
+ =Ath= p289 F 27 ’20 140w
“In the group here entitled ‘Later poems’—the closing record of two very noble and fervid lives brought to a tragic end—there is nearly always a stark and shining strength in which a certain calm sweetness is not utterly without its part.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:216 Ap ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 150w
“The poems of the unfortunate Gladys Cromwell betray the hidden thing that wrecked her career. One sees, in practically all of her poems, a fear of this life that is a kaleidoscope of beauty, belligerence, and bestiality. The inability to adjust herself to an insecure and chaotic world is manifested even in her earlier poems which contain some of her finest lyrics. In poems like The mould, Definition, Dominion, and Choice she seems a tentative and somewhat frailer Emily Dickinson, with a less incisive and more indirect idiom.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Dial= 68:534 Ap ’20 180w
+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 300w
“The work of a finely thoughtful woman whom the spectacle of sheer, naked cleverness and successfulness hurt, it represents feminine introspection almost at its best.” M. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“It is the cumulative effect of the collection that is most remarkable. As one reads on, the book develops a unity that is more than a unity of texture or of inspiration. It achieves an eloquence,—superseding the poet’s earlier constraint—that seems almost to deepen the lyric sequence to the additional significance of a monodrama.” O. R.
+ =New Repub= 22:65 Mr 10 ’20 1000w
“The poems are sincere, but sometimes stumbling. The winds of time will blow from the tree of poetry some of the leaves as heavy as these and as slightly affixed.”
+ − =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 200w
“If Miss Cromwell had lived she would never have been a popular poet, but it is quite likely that she would have written rare lyrics for the pleasure of poets and others to whom poetry is no amusement, but, in a deep and real sense, the sharing of life.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 480w
“Her poetical work throughout is the self-revelation, made with a blunt direct sincerity, of a fine spirit and a thoughtful mind.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 210w
=CROSLEY, MRS PAULINE S.=[2] Intimate letters from Petrograd. *$3 Dutton 947
20–10514
“Pauline S. Crosley’s book is a collection of letters written to members of her family, principally from Petrograd, where her husband was American naval attaché from the spring of 1917 until the flight of the foreign legations and embassies through Finland in the following February.”—N Y Times
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“The book is remarkable for its unbiased opinions and its clear estimate of the political situations, as well as for its realistic account of the chaotic conditions of Russia in the first days of its downfall.”
+ =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 80w
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 1400w
=CROTHERS, SAMUEL MCCHORD.= Dame school of experience, and other papers. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814
20–22103
In the opening paper the author reports an interview he had with the “withered dame” who teaches the school of experience. He found the schoolhouse an ancient building and the equipment primitive. The dame treated his inquiry into her methods as a prehistoric joke and made it plain that she did not go in for the fancy branches of ethics. Her parting advice was to treat experience not as a noun but as a verb and to mind the adverbs. The other papers are: The teacher’s dilemma; Every man’s natural desire to be somebody else; The perils of the literate; Natural enemies and how to make the best of them; The spiritual adviser of efficiency experts; The Pilgrims and their contemporaries; Education in pursuit of Henry Adams; The hibernation of genius; The unpreparedness of liberalism; On the evening of the new day.
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“This volume of a dozen essays is bound to be one of the most popular books of the season throughout the country, and while it appeals primarily to the man and woman of literary culture, its wisdom as well as its wit will draw many others to whom common sense clothed in humor appeals particularly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 24 ’20 400w
=CROWDER, ENOCH HERBERT.= Spirit of selective service. *$2 (2c) Century 353
20–5259
In part one of this book the author tells how the draft act was put into operation. Its success was made possible, he says, thru the cooperation of the men and women, nearly two hundred thousand strong, who made up the backbone of the selective service system. This body, composing the draft boards, “espoused the administration of an unpopular law, and not only achieved success in its execution, but popularized it as well.” In part two the author considers plans for bringing the same spirit of cooperation to bear on the present confusion. The chapters of part one are: America elects; Feeding the god of war; The volunteer system in America; Pride of tradition versus common-sense patriotism; Universal service in America; Selective service in America; How England achieved selective service; The spirit of the draft; Part two: The tasks that lie ahead; The permanency of the selective service idea; The preservation of Americanism; A plan of action; The old guard. An appendix gives General Crowder’s report as provost marshal general to the secretary of war on the demobilization of his department.
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“Clearly written and very interesting historically.”
+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“While ‘The spirit of selective service’ contains more detail, description, and theory of the draft and its aftermath than it does ‘spirit,’ it is none the less a well written and valuable contribution to the already large collection of semi-technical post-war literature.” C. K. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 360w
“It may be that some of its propositions are more ingenious than practicable, though it would not be easy to point them out. It may be that the writer is over-hopeful of the success of some of his plans, though he maintains generally an admirable tone of moderation. It is certain that he has, in a broad and patriotic spirit, presented most lucidly what he esteems to be the lesson of one of the greatest administrative achievements in the history of our government.”
+ =No Am= 211:857 Je ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 120w
=CROWELL, JOSHUA FREEMAN.= Outdoors and in. *$1.50 Four seas co. 811
20–5146
Nature themes predominate in this volume of poems and not the least attractive of them are those inspired by the cultivated garden flowers. There are a few poems of social interest, including those which touch on the war. An occasional vein of satire is also disclosed. The verses are grouped under the following heads: Through the year; Along the way; Above the clouds; From sea and shore; By wood and stream; Of field and town; To tone and tune; Garden wise; An interlude; Dream wise.
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“Skilled though he be in verse forms, Mr Crowell is nevertheless far from being a poet, and no discriminating reader will ever suspect him of it.”
− + =Cath World= 111:838 S ’20 100w
“The verses are pleasant and often graceful. The book is enjoyable reading, though hardly belonging to the heights of poetry.”
+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 120w
=CROWTHER, SAMUEL.= Common sense and labour. *$2 (3½c) Doubleday 331
20–7435
In attempting to put his finger on the something wrong in the industrial world of today, in the relations between employer and employee, the writer does not find any intrinsic antagonism between capital and labor. On the contrary he believes that “there is a growing conception that capital and labor are complementary, that it is perfectly possible to effect a bargain and sale with a reasonable profit to both sides and without more than a natural amount of bickering.” He has little use for any of the revolutionary changes involved in “profit-sharing,” the “democratization of industry” and the like, but thinks that constructive results can be achieved when “capital and labor meet not as partners but as persons anxious to make all that they can out of the same general opportunity.” Contents: The fundamental causes of labour unrest; The relation between the employer and the employed; The worker and his wage; Wages and profit-sharing delusions; The fetish of industrial democracy; When they get together; The economic truths of work; The man and the machine; The methods and policies of British labour.
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“The many cases cited give it a lively interest for the average, concerned business man or worker.”
+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
+ =Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 40w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
=Review= 3:651 D 29 ’20 500w
“His book makes for sanity on both sides.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 40w
“Distinguished by rare good sense and lack of partisanship.”
+ =St Louis= 18:215 S ’20 20w
“He is not always judicious in his strictures and his indulgence in cutting epigram is sometimes rather annoying, but there is much of stimulating information and suggestion in his essay.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 240w
“His initial chapter Mr Crowther entitles The fundamental causes of labor unrest and in it he indicates clearly his own lack of understanding of those causes.”
− =Survey= 44:316 My 29 ’20 200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 80w
=CROWTHER, SAMUEL.= Why men strike. *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday 331.1
20–8812
The author’s contention is that men are now no longer striking for higher wages or shorter hours, as formerly, but are striking against work, i.e. against what they think is an unjust system of society. He has no fault to find with capital, as such, but thinks its present mode of distribution could be improved upon. To that end he advocates a new kind of thrift, that is not based primarily on self-denial but rather on wise spending. By affording opportunities for investment of savings, thus returning them to production, he would give the workers a stake in society, create a nation of capitalists and appease social unrest.
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=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w
“It is a genial and smoothly written but ill-informed piece of work.” G: Soule
− + =Nation= 111:533 N 10 ’20 170w
“He is involved in assumptions which are hardly tenable, and in conclusions which are of negligible social value.” Ordway Tead
− =New Repub= 24:100 S 22 ’20 2100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 N 25 ’20 70w
=CROY, HOMER.= Turkey Bowman. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–16795
Like the author’s novel “Boone Stop” this is a story of boy life in the West. But it pictures a somewhat earlier period when the Indians were not yet subdued and when Indian uprisings were to be feared. The young hero, Turkey Bowman, jilted by the girl he has fallen in love with, runs away from home in company with a somewhat older vagabond who shares his opinion of the sex. Slim too has a broken heart and the two are drawn together in misery. They have various wandering adventures and settle down for a time on a cattle ranch. Slim eventually changes his attitude toward women and Turkey carries news of a proposed Indian raid to the army post and returns home a hero.
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“Turkey is always amusing, and he is a very human boy.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 340w
“There is real humor crammed into the pages, the juvenile principals are real boys and described true to nature, while there is no taint of artificial coloring in description or action.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 110w
=CROZIER, WILLIAM.= Ordnance and the world war. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 940.373
20–8902
A book subtitled “a contribution to the history of American preparedness.” The author’s purpose is to describe the ordnance department and to trace the various steps in equipping the army for France, leaving the reader to judge to what extent the department met its responsibilities. Contents: Ordnance department; Embarrassments; Overhead organization; Criticisms; Rifles; Machine guns; Field artillery; Smokeless powder; Responsibility; Conclusion. The author states that since he is no longer a member of the war department he speaks “without official authority, and with something of the freedom of any other citizen.”
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“So far as the book is an apology for the Ordnance department, it is well done and is successful. So far as it is an apology for the writer himself, it had better have been left undone. It doth protest too much; it leaves the reader not quite convinced; worse, far worse, it leaves him bored.” H: W. Bunn
+ − =Review= 3:319 O 13 ’20 1500w
“Altogether the book has a larger field than its mere name implies. It may be said to be an authoritative and comprehensive history of an achievement characteristically American in dealing with new and extraordinary problems.” F. B. C. Bradlee
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ’20 310w
=CRUICKSHANK, ALFRED HAMILTON.= Philip Massinger. il *$4.50 Stokes 822
(Eng ed 21–120)
Of the many dramatists of the century of Shakespeare, says the author of this volume, none seem more worthy of affectionate consideration than Philip Massinger. Comparing his writings with the masterpieces of his contemporaries, which, though displaying rich gifts of pathos, poetry and humor, are often marred by waywardness, unnaturalness, want of proportion and grossness, Massinger’s work is sober, well-balanced, dignified and lucid. While he shares with them the atmosphere of romance and adventure, he is the most Greek of his generation. The book contains, besides the text, appendices and index, a frontispiece portrait, a facsimile of the Henslow document at Dulwich, and of the “Believe as you list” Ms. in the British museum.
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“It is a conscientious work, which contains, we suppose, all the information and nearly all the serious speculations possible, about its subject. In expression of judgment and comparison, it is useful; for if any opinion is to be expressed of Mr Cruickshank’s criticism, it is deficient rather than aberrant.” T. S. E.
+ − =Ath= p760 Je 11 ’20 1600w
“In every detail, Dr Cruickshank’s book is carefully documented.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1550w
“He has thoroughly mastered the large amount of material collected in dissertations and technical journals during the last half-century, and within certain definite limits has made an adequate study of which the chief merit is the warm and well-reasoned admiration of Massinger which glows through every page. The scope of the book is unfortunately strangely limited.” S: C. Chew
+ − =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 600w
“Professor Cruickshank’s scholarly and illuminating and, to us, provocative book will, we hope, do something to revive interest in Massinger’s work.”
+ =Sat R= 130:36 Jl 10 ’20 720w
=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.= History of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9
20–20533
As the sub-title, “Educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization,” indicates, the book does not go back to the early civilizations of primitive and oriental people but, beginning with ancient Greece, traces the development of education throughout the western world for the purpose of showing that human civilization represents a more or less orderly evolution and that the education of man stands as one of the highest expressions of a belief in the improvability of the race. The contents are in four parts: The ancient world; The mediæval world; The transition from mediæval to modern attitudes; Modern times. The book is indexed and illustrated with full page pictures, figures and maps. Questions and references follow the chapters.
=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.=[2] Readings in the history of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9
20–22845
“A collection of sources and readings to illustrate the development of educational practice, theory, and organization.” (Sub-title) The original purpose of the collection was to furnish supplemental reading to a lecture course by the author and is now offered as a supplement to his textbook, “The history of education” and as a reference volume. It is liberally illustrated with reprints from old cuts and the subject-matter ranges from the old Greek and Roman education, the rise of Christianity with its contributions through to the middle ages, the revival of learning and the rise of the universities. With the new scientific method and after the transition phases of the eighteenth century come the beginnings of national education which gradually bring the selections down to contemporary educational history.
=CULLUM, RIDGWELL.= Heart of Unaga. *$2 (1½c) Putnam
20–18301
Steve Allenwood, as a police officer of the north land, is sent on a mission which will take two years to fulfil, leaving behind him his pleasure loving wife and baby daughter. When he returns, bringing with him a boy whom he has salvaged from the bitter rigors of the north, he finds his wife has gone away with another man, taking their daughter with her. His one desire is for revenge, but when he has almost accomplished it, he realizes its futility, and determines to devote all his remaining life to the little lad of the north. He knows there is a fortune in the drug—adresol—with which the hibernating Indians lull themselves to their long winter sleep, and thereafter the passion of his life is to discover where these Indians obtain it. After years of search, the heart of Unaga gives up its secret to him. In the meantime, his adopted son and his real daughter have grown up, and in their love for one another and for him, he realizes at last some of the contentment that has been denied him in all the intervening years, and finally he has his revenge too, on the man who has wronged him years before.
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“The story has an unusual plot, which is masterfully developed, and the descriptions of the northwest primitive life and the hibernating Indians are extremely vivid. All the characters are intensely real and well portrayed. The book is at all times interesting, and in spots even inspired.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 620w
“It would be the better for compression and it is rather too somber in its treatment.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w
“As in all his stories, Ridgwell Cullum has an excellent plot for his latest book. But with equal ease he mars the telling with a cumbersome, prolix style.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 40w
=CUMMING, CAROLINE KING, and PETTIT, WALTER WILLIAM=, comps. and eds. Russian-American relations, March 1917–March 1920. *$3.50 Harcourt 327
20–11098
The documents and papers have been compiled under the direction of John A. Ryan, J. Henry Scattergood, and William Allen White at the request of the League of free nations association. They cover three years beginning with the first declaration issued by the Provisional government of Russia after the revolution, March 16, 1917, and ending with the statement made by the supreme council at Paris, February 24, 1920. Their object is to facilitate an inquiry into the relations between the United States and Russia since the revolution of March 1917, the general purport of which is indicated by an extract from a letter by the chairman of the association: “It is not intended that this study should go into the question of the relative merits of Bolshevism or of the forces fighting Bolshevism in Russia, but that it should be merely an attempt to make clear to the American people what the actual facts have been in our governmental dealings with the various groups in what was the Russian empire.” The documents fall into three main categories: (1) Documents already published in English in Senate reports, State department publications, the New York Times, Current History Magazine, the Nation, etc.; (2) Original translations from various Russian official and unofficial newspapers; (3) Materials hitherto unpublished, contributed by Colonel Raymond Robins and others. There is an index.
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“Gratitude for the publication should not impose silence as to its faults, which are of such a character as to impair greatly its usefulness. First of all, the selection of documents, besides being very slight for the period of the provisional and Kerensky governments, has also somewhat of an ex parte character. The reader will not fail to be struck with the entire absence of papers derived directly from the State department, except for five that are taken from one of its publications.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:371 Ja ’21 420w
=Booklist= 17:14 O ’20
“It is made up entirely of authentic documents. This moderation in aim is an excellence, for not the most vindictive interventionist could deny the impartial, objective nature of the information now made conveniently accessible, and much of it made for the first time available.” Norman Hapgood
+ =Nation= 110:766 Je 5 ’20 2650w
=CUMMINGS, BRUCE FREDERICK (W. N. P. BARBELLION, pseud.).= Enjoying life, and other literary remains. il *$2 Doran 824
20–16882
The present volume shows the versatility of the author’s genius in that it is equally divided between his love of nature and his love for literature. The first four essays are a hitherto unpublished part of the “Journal of a disappointed man” and breathe the joy of life and passion for life in rare exuberance. The rest of the contents are five essays on literary and speculative subjects, two short stories: A fool and a maid on Lundy Island; and How Tom snored on his bridal night;—and essays in natural history.
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“The essays are interesting enough, although they show less power and originality than the journal. An occasional remark, for its quaintness or its insight, will remind the reader that they are the literary exercises of an unusually able man.”
+ =Ath= p1366 D 19 ’19 620w
“It has not the interest of the earlier book, though the individual sketches are very readable.”
+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“One essay here, ‘On journal writers,’ is as authoritative as any upon the subject; for Barbellion’s soul was first and last the soul of a keeper of journals.”
+ − =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 250w
“Turn the pages where you will and beauty escapes them, and always this sense of the infinite volume of life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p18 S 26 ’20 650w
“To many readers it is ingratiating. For ourselves, a kind of cheapness and gush in Barbellion’s titanism makes us wonder that his friends, after exploiting the vein most liberally in ‘The journal of a disappointed man,’ should feel constrained to make a second demonstration. Only the present indiscriminating appetite for human documents, however insignificant, can explain the matter.”
− =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 400w
“Everywhere the thought has at its command a smoothly-flowing, cadenced, withal sinewy style, with the rhythms of Stevenson.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 13 ’20 650w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p82 F 5 ’20 1100w
=CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.= Brazilian mystic: being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. *$4 (6½c) Dodd
20–26882
The events related in this book took place in the eighteen nineties but about them there is the flavor of past centuries. Mr Cunninghame Graham has told the story of Antonio Maciel, known as Antonio Conselheiro (the councillor) who was known as a prophet and saint and who with his followers became involved in civil war. A long introduction describes the scene of action, that region of Pernambuco and Bahia, known as the Sertão, a term translatable only as “wooded, back-lying highlands.” It is an arid country, devoted to cattle raising and it has developed a people described as “a race apart—a race of centaurs, deeply imbued with fanaticism, strong, honest, revengeful, primitive, and refractory to modern ideas and life to an extraordinary degree.” Their religious faith is likened to that of some of the Gnostic sects of Asia Minor in the second century.
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“Mr Cunninghame Graham gives us the story with a certain graphic effect and some picturesque detail. Unfortunately, the picturesque detail is not chosen so as to throw light on the points that are most obscure and of deepest interest. It is a pity that the value of a book containing so notable a record should be impaired by grave defects of style and taste.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p368 Mr 19 ’20 1000w
+ =Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
“The volume belongs in the hands of all who enjoy stirring fiction as well as illuminating history and the charm of a personal style.” I. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 1450w
“His story Mr Cunninghame Graham tells vividly, with rather too many nagging philosophical comments, but with a richly colored background of strange, wild customs.”
+ − =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 300w
“One can read in every page the ‘peculiar pleasure’ of the author, in his writing of such an extraordinary nineteenth century tale. It gives him everything in narration which delights him.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:18 Ap 3 ’20 1100w
“‘A Brazilian mystic’ possesses an exotic charm that sets it apart from volumes of the commonplace.”
+ =N Y Times= p13 O 3 ’20 580w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
“All is told with an artistry of penmanship that is a revelation to those who were, perhaps, too near events at that time to see them in their romantic aspect.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:78 Jl 24 ’20 500w
“His narrative of the successive sieges of Canudos is an admirable piece of writing.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
“Fascinating and exciting story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 2 ’20 320w
“If the result looks to be unworthy of the trouble the author has taken, the responsibility for the failure to make a really interesting book rests with Antonio Maciel and his followers.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 900w
=CURLE, JAMES HERBERT.= Shadow-show. new ed il *$2.50 (6c) Doran 910
20–19281
The world, to the author, is the shadow-show. Men are the puppets doomed to play their part by inexorable law with but an illusory show of free-will. The author’s part was that of traveler. Before he was forty he had seen the world from end to end and in writing this, his life’s history, he looked back on a “great and splendid phantasmagoria,” of which the book unrolls picture after picture. The pictures are: A showman in the making; In South Africa; The tortoise’s head; “Life’s liquor”; Women; Glimpses of the East; The dream city of Samarkand; Wanderings in South America; “By the waters of Babylon”; A grave in Samoa; Mine own people; “Through the seventh gate.”
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“It is all very fascinating, with none of the dreariness of the traveler who talks and says little.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 170w
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 650w
“One feels that it all might have been much better done than it is, and that it probably would be much better indeed, if one might forget the book and sit down for a chat with the author.”
+ − =Review= 3:350 O 20 ’20 320w
“The showman is always interesting, though not always to be believed implicity, especially when he forgets the pictures and goes to moralizing.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 22 ’20 340w
=CURLE, RICHARD.= Wanderings; a book of travel and reminiscences. *$5 Dutton
910
“The ground-plan of Mr Curle’s travel-book is autobiographical, like that of a picaresque romance; the twenty-five chapters, each complete in itself, are placed intentionally in a seemingly haphazard order, thus evoking different atmospheres, and allowing the author opportune moments for uttering occasional opinions. Asia, Africa, America, and Europe are the fields of travel.”—Ath
=Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 100w
“His descriptions, if rather impressionistic, are capitally done, and there is no taint of monotonous sameness in the record of his adventures on land and sea. As a whole, ‘Wanderings’ is a very good book; better than that, it is a very interesting book, and one which loses no interest by many readings.” G. M. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 800w
“Is it Mr Curle’s weakness that his Europe is rather threadbare, that he has so little to tell us that is interesting about France and Spain, that he achieves his effects best when the strong colours are, as it were, given to him by those ‘more outlandish places’ that yield, among more sensual trophies, the rich anodyne of sadness and disillusion which is so assuaging to the neurotic of our day?”
+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 450w
“Mr Curle has a fine sense of the beautiful and the rare, but, except in a few pages, leaves humor out of the graces with which he adorns the book he dedicates to Joseph Conrad.” F: O’Brien
+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 2350w
+ =Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 400w
“Of local color and atmosphere there is a satisfying amount, and the autobiography which is the basis of the book but not its motive is no more obtrusive than the hooks on which one hangs his garments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 22 ’20 250w
=CURTISS, PHILIP EVERETT.= Wanted: a fool. *$1.75 (3½c) Harper
20–18762
Robert O’Mara, a young actor, who is out of a job and down on his luck, answers an advertisement which begins: “Wanted: a fool, a man who is mad enough to desire a quiet, clean, comfortable home with chance to save money rather than high wages with dirt, noise, and uncertain employment.” He accepts the position thus offered by a Mr Pickering and becomes caretaker to a lonely but luxurious cabin in the hills of Massachusetts. From his first night there, when, unseen by her, he watches a young girl in evening dress go thru his master’s books, an air of mystery surrounds the place. His confusion is deepened by the fact that the few people he comes in contact with seem to know him, while to his knowledge they are all strangers. The key to the mystery is held by “Mr Pickering,” who has been leading a double life, and things are further cleared up when O’Mara learns that since his retirement to the country he has been picked by a leading theatrical manager for a star part, with his picture prominently displayed in the newspapers. The girl of the midnight visit has played quite a part in Mr Pickering’s life, but comes to be even more important in O’Mara’s.
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“One has to admit that Mr Curtiss has spun his tale from very fragile threads and that his denouement proves sometimes a trifle strained. Nevertheless he tangles the threads with a high handed delight.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 110w
“There are so many bypaths in the story that a careless and cursory reader might easily lose himself in a tangle of entrances and exits and ‘aside’ speeches. But the author keeps a firm hand on his work, as is proved by his coming out triumphantly ‘fit’ and lucid in the last chapter, even if his readers may be somewhat dazed and breathless.”
+ − =NY Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 370w
“A slight, but in its own way, engaging tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 230w
=CURWOOD, JAMES OLIVER.= Valley of silent men; a story of the Three River country. il $2 (2½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–15535
James Kent was a member of the Royal mounted police in the far northwest of Canada. When he believes himself dying he confesses to a murder for which another man is condemned to die setting the latter free. But Kent does not die and now it is his turn to hang. A mystery girl appears in the nick of time and helps him to escape. Their scow is wrecked in the rapids of the Athabasca river and Marette is apparently drowned. To reach her home in the “Valley of silent men” is now the only worthwhile goal left to Kent. With his last strength he finds it and also Marette. It is a story of self-sacrifices prompted by gratitude, of friendships and heroic love and of dark deeds—all of which come to light in the Valley of silent men.
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+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“This is by no means a remarkable western adventure tale, but for undiluted romance, tinged with the flavor of adventure that always accompanies mention of the R. N. W. P., ‘The valley of silent men’ cannot be surpassed.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 23 ’20 270w
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 7 ’20 770w
“Well written, but is almost too tense, too somber, and sometimes too trying in its horror to be a pleasant book.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 100w
=CUSHING, CHARLES PHELPS.= If you don’t write fiction. *$1 (5c) McBride 029
20–11318
This little book is intended for those who write other things, chiefly newspaper “stories” and magazine articles. It is partly autobiographical, for the author draws on his own experience. The first chapter. About noses and jaws, points out that what is known as a “nose for news” plus grit are the factors in success. Other chapters are: How to prepare a manuscript; How to take photographs; Finding a market; A beginner’s first adventures; In New York’s “Fleet street”; Something to sell; What the editor wants.
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“A rollicking but practical account of how one free-lancer succeeded.”
+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w
“It is extremely enjoyable and rather helpful ‘how-to’ book.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 240w
“It will pay any beginner—and perhaps some writers of experience—to run through this book for suggestions.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w
“It’s quite a readable little book even if one feels no need of the professional advice which is its raison d’etre.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 200w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 70w
=CUSHMAN, HERBERT ERNEST.= Beginners history of philosophy. v 2. Modern philosophy. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 109
(19–243)
In this second and revised edition “much new material has been incorporated into the text, and this has necessitated, of course, the re-writing of the major portion of the book. The final chapter on the ‘Philosophy of the nineteenth century’ has been developed at some length.” (Preface) Contents: The causes of the decay of the civilization of the middle ages; The renaissance (1453–1690); The humanistic period of the renaissance (1453–1600); The natural science period of the renaissance (1600–1630); The rationalism of the natural science period of the renaissance; The enlightenment (1690–1781); John Locke; Berkeley and Hume; The enlightenment in France and Germany; Kant; The German idealists; The philosophy of the thing-in-itself; The philosophy of the nineteenth century; illustrations, diagrams and index.
=CUTTING, MRS MARY STEWART (DOUBLE-DAY).= Some of us are married. *$1.75 Doubleday
20–6842
“In this new volume Mary Stewart Cutting relates a number of those pleasant, semi-humorous little stories of married life with which her name is associated, as well as two others which she calls ‘Autobiographical stories.’ The first, The man who went under, is the tale of an embezzler, told by himself. The second, The song of courage, is a story of a woman who might have been a great singer, had not life thwarted her-life, and her own affections.”—N Y Times
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=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“While as a whole not equal to Mrs Cutting’s best work, will no doubt give pleasure to many people.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 400w
“None are dramatic or tragic in the accepted sense. Indeed, some of the little plots seem almost trivial in their beginnings and consequences. But married folk will quickly appreciate their truth and the deft skill of the author in presenting them severely on their merits.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 320w
=CYNN, HUGH HEUNG-WO.= Rebirth of Korea; the reawakening of the people, its causes and the outlook. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 951.9
20–8302
“This story is of the Korean rebellion of March, 1919, and the establishment of the republic. The author who was educated in an American university, and is principal of the Pai Chai school in Seoul, is temperate but shows clearly the wrongs of his country under Japanese rule. Appendixes contain material on the relation of missionaries to the revolution and also Japanese-Korean treaties since 1876. No index.”—Booklist
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=Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p743 N 11 ’20 60w
=CZERNIN VON UND ZU CHUDENITZ, OTTOKAR THEOBALD OTTO MARIA, graf.= In the world war. *$4 (4c) Harper 940.48
20–6768
The author disclaims any intention of writing a history of the war but says of the book: “Rather than to deal with generalities, its purpose is to describe separate events of which I had intimate knowledge, and individuals with whom I came into close contact and could, therefore, observe closely; in fact, to furnish a series of snapshots of the great drama.” (Preface) The result, with his introductory reflections, is a conception of the war as a whole. One of the features of the book is an intimate characterization of the Archduke Ferdinand. Contents: Introductory reflections; Konopischt; William II; Rumania; The U-boat warfare; Attempts at peace; Wilson; Impressions and reflections; Poland; Brest-Litovsk; The peace of Bukharest; Final reflections: Appendix; Index.
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“Among the swarm of revelations that are appearing in connection with the diplomatic history of the war. Count Czernin’s book is one of the really notable ones. It is true he is disappointing, for he continually makes us feel that he might have told us much more if he had chosen to, but, as far as he goes, he is well worth attention.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:502 Ap ’20 650w
“It is greatly to be regretted that this translation of an interesting and important book should have been entrusted to someone with a half knowledge of German, and a complete ignorance of the elementary facts about Austria.”
− + =Ath= p32 Ja 2 ’20 220w
=Ath= p108 Ja 23 ’20 2050w
=Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 50w (Reprinted from Am Hist R)
“The title of the book should really be ‘Czernin in the world war,’ but this does not say that the story is lacking in universal significance. The hasty-pudding character of the text, the very lack of scholarly caution, brings us so much nearer to the personality of Czernin himself; and it is this opportunity to see an important elder statesman in mental action that gives the work more interest than the technical narratives of the military leaders. The sidelights that Czernin’s analysis throws upon colleagues and adversaries in the same official station as himself, are an important contribution to the psychology of statesmen.” L: Mumford
+ =Freeman= 1:452 Jl 21 ’20 1750w
+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w
“Count Czernin has two advantages over the other statesmen and commanders who have published their personal records of the war. He writes remarkably well, and he has no motive to distort the truth. His fault is diffuseness and repetition, but it cannot spoil an eminently readable book.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:308 N 29 ’19 2100w
“Czernin treats the war in a very fair and objective spirit. He reveals his limitations most clearly in the chapter on the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations.” A. C. Freeman
+ − =N Y Call= p11 My 23 ’20 1350w
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 180w
=Spec= 123:692 N 22 ’19 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p660 N 20 ’19 1150w
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=DANA, ETHÉL NATHALIE=, comp. and ed. Story of Jesus. il $16.50 Jones, Marshall 755
20–26575
The text has been taken entirely from the New Testament and it is arranged to alternate with the pictures, which are full-page reproductions in color from the paintings of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Duccio, Ghirlandaio and Barnja da Siena. The introduction touches on the place of the church in medieval times and gives a brief sketch of each painter. There are forty pictures, so arranged as to give the complete story of the life of Jesus.
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“An important book for any art collection.”
+ =Booklist= 16:352 Jl ’20
“The most beautiful American book of 1920 and the most noteworthy of books for children since the ‘Joan of Arc’ of Boutet de Monvel, is ‘The story of Jesus.’ Regarded as a substitute for any one of a number of sets of books, costing from ten to twenty dollars more, I am confident that Mrs Dana’s book will fill a larger and more permanent place in any home or library.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:257 N ’20 490w
“The book would be of much educational value to children, from both the artistic and the religious standpoint; and it is also a treasure to art lovers, since its color reproductions are excellent, and copies of many of these paintings cannot be obtained elsewhere.”
+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 90w
“Such a book as ‘The story of Jesus’ is one of the few that seem capable of fertilizing minds indifferent to or skeptical of the greatness of much Christian art. There are forty reproductions all in full color, and their quality is exquisite—even to the gold, which appears as gold, not as spotted yellow. A finer gallery of color reproductions of the primitive masters would be very hard to find.” Glen Mullin
+ =Nation= 111:sup654 D 8 ’20 2150w
“The book is a pleasure to the connoisseur even when he criticizes. Any one who loves Italian painting will enjoy it, and the child who opens it, to learn for the first time the story of the Passion, will find himself in a dramatic wonderland.” G. H. Edgell
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 13 ’20 720w
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 26 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 200w
=DANE, CLEMENCE.= Legend. *$1.60 (4c) Macmillan
20–817
A short novel, occupied wholly with a two hour’s conversation. A woman of genius has died, and her friends, members of the literary circle of which she had made one, are discussing her and her life story, piecing it together and puzzling out the motives that had led her to abandon her art at its height, to marry a humdrum country doctor, and retire into domesticity. Bit by bit they piece together the legend—the legend that is to live for the public in Anita Serle’s “Life.” And bit by bit the reader of the book tears it apart and comes to see the real Madala Grey, as she is known to the two present who had loved her, and to the young country girl who had never seen her, and who tells the story.
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“To our thinking the real problem of ‘Legend’ is why Miss Clemence Dane, turning aside from life, should have concentrated her remarkable powers upon reviving, redressing, touching up, bringing up-to-date these puppets of a bygone fashion.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p1289 D 5 ’19 1350w
“Very well done, but will never find many readers.”
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“The book has its faults. Clemence Dane, as in her earlier novel, writes with an almost personal vindictiveness against one of her sex. In her dissection she is as merciless as Anita herself. Her pen drops venom and as the result Anita becomes too cruel in her mental indecencies and just fails to convince.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:202 Ap ’20 1300w
“Less well done we know that we should find such a story tedious, but Clemence Dane has accomplished it with an art far surpassing that which she brought to her earlier novels.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 500w
“It is easy for so passionately earnest a writer to overemphasize, and just here a flaw is apparent in ‘Legend.’ The malice that rises like a poisonous vapour from that group around the fire is overdone. The people never lose reality but they do forfeit the right to great consideration. The effect is clear but a little too harshly handled.” H. I. Gilchrist
+ − =Dial= 68:523 Ap ’20 1500w
=Lit D= p113 S 18 ’20 2550w
“It is a very short book, but one of very extraordinary richness and intricacy. Roads lead from it into all the regions of literature and life. One might follow any one of them and reach the uplands of high speculation. Technically it stands alone in English fiction. In other literatures its structural method is not unknown.”
+ =Nation= 110:240 F 21 ’20 1000w
“The new story is much shorter, hardly more than a long novelette, and it gains much in strength, dramatic quality and impressiveness by the compression. It is told more simply, with the effect of concealing the very remarkable art with which it is written, of making it seem artless in its basic simplicity.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:50 Ja 25 ’20 550w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Some novels we enjoy; others we admire. If we consider Miss Clemence Dane’s ‘Legend’ under this rough division, it would certainly come in the second category. It is as subtle in its method as Miss Sinclair’s ‘Mary Olivier,’ but simpler in its plan and marked by greater clarity.”
+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 350w
“Whether the whole performance is more than a brilliant tour de force may only be determined or estimated, after later readings; it is certainly well worth a first.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 500w
“Miss Dane has already won for herself, by two able stories, a place among the serious writers of the day; in ‘Legend,’ she has written one of the most remarkable novels we have seen for a long time. A strain of morbid excitement runs through the narrative, emphasized, perhaps by the endless pursuit of the conversation without a break of any kind. This trick seems hardly necessary, and Miss Dane would have made her book easier to read, and equally effective, if she had broken it up into chapters at the clear pauses or breaks in the emotional current.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 440w
“The book is subtly and skilfully written; it is an engaging literary achievement, particularly on the technical side.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 22 ’20 330w
“In imagination and power of concentration ‘Legend’ surpasses Miss Dane’s other novels, and there is in it in a greater degree shrewdness of insight and literary judgment. But this shrewdness has its evident limits in the understanding of men.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 750w
=DANE, EDMUND.= British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918. il *$3 Doran 940.42
(Eng ed 20–4448)
“This volume deals with the operations in five theatres of war—Southwest Africa, East Africa, Togoland, Cameroon, and Kiao-chau. Mr Dane has endeavored, with the help of nine sketch maps, to compress the account of them into 205 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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=Ath= p688 My 21 ’20 110w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 40w
“On the whole, he has given us, as he claims, a truthful and lucid narrative, sufficient for the general reader, and a useful primer for the student. Mr Dane quotes no authorities and gives no bibliography. He goes out of his way to avoid and paraphrase ordinary military expressions.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p728 D 11 ’19 550w
=DANIELS, GEORGE WILLIAM.= Early English cotton industry; introductory chapter by George Unwin. (Manchester university publications) il *$3.25 (*8s 6d) Longmans 338.4
20–14211
“Mr Daniels, who is senior lecturer in economics in the University of Manchester, was greatly helped in writing this historical sketch of the cotton industry from the sixteenth century to the death of Samuel Crompton by the discovery in the upper storey of one of the mills owned by Messrs O’Connel and Co., Limited, at Ancoats, of a number of ledgers, correspondence files, etc., dealing with their business for the period 1795–1835. Mr Daniels further discovered among the business correspondence of the firm a series of original letters by Crompton, written in 1812 and describing his invention of the ‘mule’ thirty years earlier, which are here reproduced.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Mr Daniels’ researches make a valuable addition to social and industrial history.”
+ =Ath= p408 S 24 ’20 210w
“Apart from these technical details, however, the book is of special value because it shows that the present relations between capital and labour were not the outcome of the factory system, but must be traced much further back.”
+ =Spec= 125:211 Ag 14 ’20 1350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p522 Ag 12 ’20 110w
=DANIELS, JOHN.= America via the neighborhood. il *$2 (2c) Harper 325.7
21–170
The volume is one of a series of eleven books on Americanization studies of which Allen T. Burns is general director. Its point of departure is that the essential objective in any program of Americanization is constructive participation in the life of America and that this cannot be attained either by enforced conformity or the equally enforced injection of the English language and a smattering of civics. The general conclusion of the study is that Americanization does not restrict itself to the immigrant alone but to all activities that have to do with neighborhood and community problems and that it is the labor unions, cooperatives and political organizations that bring the immigrant into democratic partnership with the native American. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Americanization and the neighborhood; Inherent forces; Union through racial coherence; Colony pioneering (two chapters); The social settlement approach; The settlement’s larger opportunities; Church, school, and library; Other agencies and the neighborhood principle; Labor unions; Co-operatives; Political organization and government; The outcome.
=DARGON, JEAN.= Future of aviation, with a preface by M. Etienne Lamy. il *$3 Appleton 629.1
20–3275
“A volume entitled ‘The future of aviation’ contains a translation by Philip Nutt of a work written in French by Jean Dargon. There are nine full-page illustrations in the book, two maps, and numerous diagrams.” (N Y Times) “It is a discussion of the civil as opposed to the military use of the airplane, showing how it depends first of all on structure which aims at endurance and carrying power rather than agility and lightness. The author then considers practical problems; postal service, tourism, international air lines and traffic regulations.”—Booklist
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=Booklist= 16:264 My ’20
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Ja ’20 30w
+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 40w
=DARK, RICHARD.= Quest of the Indies. il *$2.25 Stokes 910 9
The title of the book is used as the symbol for the medieval spirit of adventure and desire for expansion and knowledge of the earth’s surface. Beginning with the Mohammedan invasion of eastern and southern Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries, the book contains brief sketches of the various voyages of exploration and conquest with their leading personalities—which ended in the complete European invasion of the Americas. With illustrations and several early maps of the world the contents are: The mediæval world; The farther East; The heel of Africa; Round the Cape to India; The Portuguese eastern empire; The first voyage of Columbus; Later voyages of Columbus; Central America: discovery of the Pacific; Magellan’s voyage; The conquest of Mexico; The conquest of Peru; Chronological summary, Index.
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=N Y Times= p13 O 31 ’20 100w
=DARLING, ELTON R.= Inorganic chemical synonyms and other useful chemical data. *$1 Van Nostrand 546
19–17188
A work based on a series of articles written for the Chemical Engineer in 1918. It is designed for the student, but the author expresses the belief that it will prove useful to the experienced chemist. Contents: Introduction; The elements; Specific gravity and temperature comparison; Standards of weights and measures; Chemical synonyms (comprising the main body of the book); Cross index of chemical terms. The author is in charge of the industrial chemistry department in the Newark technical school, Newark, N.J.
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“An excellent alphabetically-arranged cross-index enables one to identify quickly names which do not indicate the true chemical nature of the compound. As a time-saver, the book deserves the attention of every chemist in contact with the field of industrial chemistry.” A. G. Wikoff
+ =Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering= 22:667 An 7 ’20 340w
“A good library reference.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ja ’20 40w
=DARLINGTON, W. A.= Alf’s button. *$1.75 Stokes
20–12958
By the fortunes of war, it happened that Aladdin’s famous lamp was among a group of curios which were melted up during the late war, and appeared subsequently as buttons for soldiers’ tunics. So it was that Private Alf ‘Iggins, hard at work with his toothbrush on his second button, in preparation for inspection, was amazed and terrified at the sight of a djinn appearing before him, bowing low and asking for orders. He eventually recovered from his terror enough to take advantage of the genie’s powers, aided and abetted by Bill Grant, whose imagination was more riotous than Alf’s. Their adventures with “Eustace,” as they christened the djinn, make up the book. The fact that Eustace often brought an oriental flavor into the carrying out of their wishes proves rather disconcerting to Alf and Bill, and brings them some undesired notoriety.
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+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 70w
=N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 200w
“The most amusing book I have read this summer is ‘Alf’s button.’” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:209 S 8 ’20 260w
=DASENT, ARTHUR IRWIN.=[2] Piccadilly in three centuries, with some account of Berkeley Square, and the Haymarket. il *$7 Macmillan 942.1
21–340
“Mr Dasent has examined minutely the ratebooks of St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St James’s, Westminster, and St George’s, Hanover-square, in which he has followed every house in Piccadilly-place through all its vicissitudes of ownership. Mr Dasent begins his history, so full of noble and historic names, from a humble tailor, one Robert Baker, who in 1612 erected the first buildings upon land covered by the present site of Piccadilly.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Clarendon was the real maker of Piccadilly. The great Clarendon House, which he had barely finished before he went into exile in 1667, was the first of the Piccadilly mansions. Moreover, Clarendon sold to Lord Berkeley the site of the present Devonshire House, to Sir William Pulteney the site of Bath House, and to Sir John Denham, poet and architect, the site of Burlington House and the Albany. But Clarendon had made Piccadilly a fashionable place of residence. Mr Dasent has illustrated his book with some highly interesting old prints.” (Spec)
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“His style is slipshod, he has no sense of literary values, and the result is merely a collection of odds and ends about the people and places associated with Piccadilly and its surroundings. His book is, therefore, without form, but it is by no means void, since its intrinsic interest and its scenes of ancient days reproduced in its illustrations have a permanent value as records, the entire volume bringing together a large amount of information not easily accessible elsewhere.” E. F. Edgett
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 D 4 ’20 1700w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 100w
“A pleasant and discursive book.”
+ =Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 320w
“If this book, considered from a literary point of view, is not so attractive as Mr Street’s well-known ‘Ghosts of Piccadilly,’ it is an excellent piece of that anecdotic antiquarianism which keeps one sitting in an armchair turning over just one more page long after one ought to be in bed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 1350w
=DAVID, CHARLES WENDELL.=[2] Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy. *$3 Harvard univ. press
20–23204
“The eldest son of William the Conqueror, cheated of a kingdom by his more aggressive brothers, defeated in battle, deprived of his duchy, and condemned to perpetual imprisonment, would hardly be selected as one of the heroic figures of French history. The reason for this monograph is not so much the personality of its subject as the fact that he was associated in his lifetime with great names and great events. Dr David has attempted in this study of Duke Robert’s career to set him in his true relation to the history of Normandy and England and of the First crusade.”—R of Rs
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“An admirable index completes a remarkable study of a period of early English history seldom discussed.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 780w
=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w
=DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS.= Boy in Serbia. il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell 914.97
20–15466
The author of “Tales of Serbian life” has written this story to set forth some of the everyday manners and customs of Serbia. It is told in the first person by Milosav, who describes Simple village life, Playtime, First days at school, How St Sava’s day is kept, etc. There is a colored frontispiece with other illustrations from photographs.
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“Charmingly simple, dignified and instructive and filled with a joyous appreciation of home and country.”
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
“Rarely well told.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p834 D 9 ’20 140w
=DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS.= Ward tales. (On active service ser.) *$1.25 (3c) Lane
20–10369
These tales from a military hospital by a V. A. D. show chiefly the humorous side and the comic happenings in surroundings so gruesome. There is just enough sadness in these pictures to give a background to the brighter moments in a nurse’s life. The tales are: In the ward kitchen; “Eye-wash”; A conference of the powers; Visiting day; After hours; The tale of a shirt; The night round; Going to the pictures.
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“There is nothing of the grim or the harrowing, though there is an occasional touch of finely restrained pathos.”
+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 40w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 50w
=DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD.= National evolution. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 301
20–1609
“This book traces the development of human societies through the stages of primitive culture, Christian civilization and modern capitalism; ends with a consideration of the best basis for national progress. The book is a condensation of social theories, the only original point being ‘an attempt to harmonize the cultural theory of history with the concrete workings of economic law.’ Chapter bibliographies.”—Booklist
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“This brief, concise work is on the whole sound and constructive and will be of special value to the reader whose time is limited.” G. S. Dow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:248 S ’20 240w
=Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
“‘National evolution’ is a distinct contribution to the National social science series.”
+ =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w
“The forecasts of the author are reasonable and, on the whole, convincing.”
+ − =Survey= 44:351 Je 5 ’20 220w
=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Matrix. il *$1.75 (5c) Century
20–3881
The story is the romance of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, father and mother of Abraham Lincoln, put together by the author from legends and documentary evidence and woven into a work of fiction portraying pioneer life in the bluegrass valley of Kentucky, illumined by faith, love and courage. It throws a halo around the head of Lincoln’s mother and shows us his father as the first martyr to the cause of abolition.
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=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
“It is quite fitting that the story of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks should be written by an author who comes from the ‘blue grass country’ herself. She is able to bring to it that inherited tradition which is so difficult for an outsider to achieve.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 360w
“The author occasionally lapses into primer-technique. A maturer style could have given form to a more enduring romance.”
+ − =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 50w
=Nation= 110:375 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It has a certain stiffness, as if the task of weaving history and legend and surmise into a consistent and interesting story were a somewhat hampering business to the author. She has, however, succeeded in presenting a clear and evidently carefully drawn sketch of this particular period of American history.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 280w
“It seems to us that the author has made the life of their community focus on these two young people almost too persistently, for whatever their foreordained place in history, they must have been to their neighbors ‘just folks.’ City dwellers who love the simple life will find a breathing space in this pioneer tale.” E. C. Webb
+ − =Pub W= 97:605 F 21 ’20 260w
“It is not the author’s fault if she has produced a pious memorial rather than a living portrait.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 2:462 My 1 ’20 130w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 190w
=DAVIS, FRANKLYN PIERRE=, ed.[2] Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919, and year book of newspaper poetry. $2.50 The author. Enid, Okla. 811.08
20–15478
“Franklyn Pierre Davis of Enid, Okla. carries the anthologizing tendency a step further by editing an ‘Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919 and year book of newspaper poetry.’ Selections are made from a list of papers nationwide in range, and include topical poems, light verse and serious poetry. The editor says: ‘I hope to be able to present annually the best of the verse published in the newspapers in a volume which may preserve for the future the real sentiment of the American people and the true ideals of American life.’”—Springf’d Republican
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“If the fact be excepted that Mr Davis has done his job rather badly, one can have nothing but admiration for his endeavor. The idea is mentally invigorating and susceptible of many admirable procedures. It is the editor’s own fault that he has not carried it out in a sufficiently comprehensive manner.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =Bookm= 52:168 O ’20 500w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w
=DAVIS, JAMES FRANCIS.= Chinese label. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–6429
San Antonio is the scene of this smuggling story and Julian Napier is the special secret service agent sent down from Washington to catch the smugglers. Besides opium, he is on the lookout for two diamonds of great value. A Mexican, a Turk, several Chinese, a beautiful Armenian woman, a lovely American girl and her father, all are implicated in the plot. Clever team work between Napier and the Texas rangers results in the taking of one diamond, and the other is captured in a spectacular raid on the headquarters of the Chinese society which was also doing a big opium business. In this raid the poor dope fiend which the American girl’s father had become met his death like a man, leaving Ruth to be comforted by Julian.
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=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“The whole affair is treated lightly, without pretense that it is anything more than an amusing yarn; and this is refreshing.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 190w
=Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 320w
“It all runs logically and with a degree of reserve for which the reader is grateful. There would be opportunities for the writer to run amuck, as it were, if he would, but he is artist enough to understand that the best dramatic effect often can be attained by piquing the imagination rather than by laying on the crimson paint with a whitewash brush.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:277 My 23 ’20 480w
=Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 120w
=DAVIS, MALCOLM W.= Open gates to Russia. il *$2 (2½c) Harper 914.7
20–1610
The author pleads for fair dealing and friendliness and co-operation with Russia in the accomplishment of her great task of reconstruction, and the object of the book is to point out the practical ways and means by which mutually satisfactory relationship can be achieved between Russia and America. The book falls into four parts: The new importance of Russia; Russia’s immediate necessities; Russia’s enduring needs; The interest of Russia. “The first part is a consideration of the question of recent relationships and the attitudes which they have created. The second ... of the important opportunities in trade and industry. The third points out social opportunities, in which considerable opportunities for commercial enterprise are also involved. Finally, the last part is an answer to some American misconceptions of Russia and a description of the real Russia for Americans who wish to know her.” (Chapter 1: America’s attitude toward awakened Russia)
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“It is intensely practical, and for that very reason has value at the moment beyond the larger number of books upon Russia.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 330w
“Business men who plan to expand their export trade will find these pages a mine of information. The conditions and needs are presented in detail, and valuable suggestions for the conduct of trade with Russia are given.”
+ =Cath World= 111:536 Jl ’20 700w
+ =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 60w
Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin
=Nation= 110:400 Mr 27 ’20 160w
“It is gratifying to come across a book that is so clear in its recital of facts as the one Davis has given us. It is in all a volume worth reading.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 750w
“The five chapters under the general title, Russia’s enduring needs, are of great value, and of special interest is the one relating to The liberated influence of woman.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:268 My 23 ’20 440w
“It will be perhaps especially suggestive to the American who contemplates opening business relations with Russia, but it is a valuable addition to the library of any layman interested in social, economic, and intellectual conditions in Russia today.”
+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 80w
+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w
“The volume is one that challenges our present individual indifference to the Russia of today and of the future.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 1100w
“It should not be neglected by anyone interested in commercial or other relationships with Russia.” Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:50 Ap 3 ’20 220w
=DAVIS, NORAH.= Other woman. *$1.75 (1c) Century
20–9140
In this story of dual personality a man, Langdom Kirven, after excessive fatigue and brain-fag, loses himself and consciousness, and wakes up in a hospital another man. In the morning he had said good-bye to his wife and little son and taken a train to New York. The new man is a crook and a criminal, albeit a genius. After seven years his one-time bosom friend and business partner, Spencer Ellis, finds him on a bench in the park, a down and out tramp. Ellis recognizes Kirven and implores him to return to his old life. But there is no memory in Kirven, now John Gorham, and Ellis is at last forced to believe that the external resemblance hides a strange personality. But he gives Gorham a chance to retrieve his fall in fortunes, which the latter does with bold and doubtful business methods. He also falls passionately in love with Naomi, Ellis’ cousin. One morning after another crisis, John Gorham has fled with all memory of himself and a bewildered Kirven awakens in the latter’s office. After this a succession of alternations follows, each one leaving the subject and his friends more bewildered and perplexed than ever. At last an eminent physician finds the way out. The split personality can be unified by a complete realization of the situation and henceforth Langdom Kirven can go through the remainder of his life whole, although cursed with a continuous memory.
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“Somewhat melodramatic and rather long drawn out, but cleverly managed. Will appeal to those who read for plot interest.”
+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“It is a difficult piece of work which is admirably well done.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 580w
“Miss Davis has handled her material very well indeed, with much ingenuity of invention and with commendable care in the working out of her great amount of detail and complication. The novel is a good piece of literary workmanship in construction and development.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 420w
=DAVIS, PHILIP, and SCHWARTZ, BERTHA=, comps. Immigration and Americanization. $4 (1½c) Ginn 325.7
20–4542
The book is a compilation of selected readings, on the title subject. It “aims to cover the field of immigration and Americanization from every possible point of view, subject to the limits of a single volume. It is particularly designed to meet the needs of high schools, colleges universities, and chautauquas, which have been frequently at a loss in recommending to the student, investigator, official, or general public a handbook on these twin topics.” (Preface) The selections have been arranged chronologically and include some of the most recent contributions on the subject from writers including Jane Addams, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Emily Greene Balch, Edward A. Steiner, E. A. Goldenweiser, Paul U. Kellogg, John Mitchell, Edward Alsworth Ross, Edward T. Devine, Lillian D. Wald, J. E. Milholland, Samuel Gompers, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin K. Lane, Louis D. Brandeis, Theodore Roosevelt. The contents are in two parts. In book 1 the selections are classified under: History; Causes; Characteristics; The new immigration; Effects; Immigration legislation. Book 2 contains: Americanization: policies and programs; Distribution; Education; Naturalization and citizenship; Americanism. There is an appendix, a bibliography and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
“The book should be of value to both the general reader and the special student.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 200w
“The compilers have exercised diligence and judgment, but with a few exceptions the selections lack the ‘human touch.’ It would appear that an undue proportion of space is allotted to the new immigration, even admitting that from the standpoint of the present time and the Americanization worker greater emphasis is justifiable.” G: M. Stephenson
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:168 S ’20 720w
=Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w
=DAVIS, WILLIAM.= Hosiery manufacture. (Pitman’s textile industries ser.) il *$3.50 Pitman 677
A British work designed to meet the rapid development of the knitted fabrics industry and to supply the demand of new firms for information. Contents: Development of the knitted fabric; Knitting and weaving compared; Latch needle knitting; Types of knitting yarns; Systems of numbering hosiery yarns; Calculations for folded knitting yarns; Bearded needle knitting; Setting of knitted fabrics; Various knitting yarns; Winding of hosiery yarns; Circular knitting; Colour in knitted goods; Colour harmony and contrast; Defects in fabrics. There are sixty-one illustrations and an index.
=DAVIS, WILLIAM STEARNS.= History of France; from the earliest times to the treaty of Versailles. il *$3.50 (2c) Houghton 944
19–19268
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
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“Professor Davis has the knack of vivid and fluent narrative. The tale reads well and is interesting. The author makes the great figures of French history appear living.” C. H. C. Wright
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:313 Ja ’21 580w
+ =Booklist= 61:163 F ’20
“An interesting feature of the story is that which tells of the relation of France to the crusades. There is an extremely interesting account of life in France in the feudal ages. The story of the revolution is told rapidly, but with great brilliancy. As a single volume history of France this must take its place in the foremost rank.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 550w
“Though one can clearly discern the author’s purpose of presenting his facts fairly and with due justice to all, he has not perfectly understood the spirit and ideals that have made France. Early and mediæval France cannot be judged by the ideals of modern American Protestantism.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:256 My ’20 220w
“His limited space excludes detailed interpretation of separate events, and the author is also compelled to give only the most perfunctory notice to the economic phenomena which are associated with various stages of French history. On the political side, however, the work is reasonably complete, and Professor Davis shows an excellent sense of proportion in laying special stress upon what may be called the revolutionary era of French history.” W: H: Chamberlin
+ =Dial= 68:255 F ’20 1500w
+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 300w
=New Repub= 23:207 Jl 14 ’20 1650w
“The book is much more than a mere history; it is a colorful romance, with a splendid nation as a background, and most of the characters cast in a heroic mold.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:303 Je 6 ’20 420w
“The present volume is, so far as we know, the only truly comprehensive history of France. Aside from its comprehensiveness, the text has been clearly and compactly written by one who has an enviable knowledge of sources.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“Though very sympathetic to his subject, and though he often animadverts to the ravages of the Hun in the present when telling of the past, his tone is scholarly and his attitude sufficiently impartial. Mr Davis has added an excellent select bibliography. Unfortunately, there is almost nothing of French literature and art.”
+ − =Review= 2:285 Mr 20 ’20 280w
“This book becomes at once the standard single-volume history of France in the English language.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
“Not the least attractive feature of the book is the excellent diction. Many of the illustrations are reproductions of rare prints and paintings, and they greatly enhance the value of the work, which is, indeed, a modern and trustworthy textbook.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 140w
=DAW, ALBERT W., and DAW, ZACHARIAS W:= Compressed air power. il *$7.50 Pitman 621.5
“A treatise on the development and transmission of power by compressed air for engineers and draughtsmen, and for students of applied science.” (Sub-title) “The compression, expansion, exhaust, and flow of air and gases are very fully dealt with, formulae deduced for making the necessary computations, and practical examples solved to assist those concerned in the design and use of compressed air plant and machines.” (Preface) The book has seventy-five illustrations, forty tables and numerous worked out examples, and is indexed. The authors are members of the Institution of mining and metallurgy [of Great Britain].
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+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p59 Jl ’20 190w
=DAWSON, CONINGSBY WILLIAM.= Little house. il *$1.50 (9c) Lane
20–16158
The little house tells its own story. It is a very old and empty little house, as it stands in “Dolls’ House Square” in London, and on the nights of air-raids and bombing, it is a very frightened little house. But it is not too frightened to give shelter to others who are afraid, too, and so one night when “the little lady who needed to be loved, but did not know it,” crept in, with her two little children, they are amply protected. And presently, “the wounded officer who wanted rest,” looking for a haven from the raid sought it too in the little house. Then the officer goes off to war, and the little lady comes to live in the house. After the armistice, the officer returns, and, again in the shelter of the little house, finds the rest he craves more than ever, and “the little lady” receives the love she needs. And the little house feels that its part in the romance has not been inconsiderable.
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“By making the house in question narrate the scenes its walls have witnessed. Mr Coningsby Dawson has aimed, not too successfully, at imparting a Hans Andersen atmosphere to occurrences which have not much in common with the traditional material of fairy-tale.”
+ − =Ath= p892 D 31 ’20 140w
=Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21
“A story which has a real Christmas flavor and which would warm the heart of anybody whatever is ‘The little house.’” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 120w
“The story has a charm as elusive as the appealing quality that won so many followers for Maude Adams. It is as endearing as ‘Roaming in the gloaming’ or ‘Comin’ through the rye.’ In it sentiment keeps clear of sentimentality.”
+ =N Y Times= p2 S 19 ’20 1000w
“‘The little house’ is really a Christmas story—and a very delightful and charming one. The fanciful manner in which the story is told by the old house in which the scenes take place is beautifully conceived and finely carried out.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
“Mr Dawson has chosen a rather childish allegory as his method, although, after having read the book, one may look at a house with a slightly more human feeling of childish fancy. The redeeming feature of the book is the atmosphere of old London. Aside from these glimpses of old London, ‘The little house’ is hardly more than a sweet book for sweet people.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 330w
“For all its pretty sentiment (or, rather, because of it), the whole thing is a pure ‘machine,’ the working of which Mr Dawson has mastered under western influences.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 90w
=DAWSON, EDGAR.= Organized self-government. il *$1.40 Holt 353
20–10285
The object of this volume is to serve as a school text-book in teaching government, organized and political cooperation, the functions of government and the problems to be met by those who perform those functions. It is to arouse the child’s interest in government as a practical subject and to open his eyes to noticing its effects in the street, in the home, in the school. This latter purpose, more especially, is to be accomplished by the suggestions and questions at the end of each chapter. The contents are in five parts.